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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Cannes or Innsbruck?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Cannes’s own page.

Choose Innsbruck for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Innsbruck’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cannes 80, Innsbruck 20: Cannes leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Innsbruck 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Innsbruck 58: Innsbruck leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Innsbruck 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Innsbruck 96: Innsbruck leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Innsbruck 72: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Innsbruck 62: Innsbruck leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Innsbruck 78: Innsbruck leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Innsbruck 38: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Innsbruck 38: Innsbruck leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Innsbruck 45: Innsbruck leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Innsbruck 45: Innsbruck leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Innsbruck.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Innsbruck
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cannes in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesInnsbruck

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesInnsbruck
Official languageFrenchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m574 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesInnsbruck
City population74,350132,499
People per km²3,7931,263
Museums within 10 km1628
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.