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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Cannes or Jerusalem?

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
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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, Jerusalem 40: Cannes leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Jerusalem 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Jerusalem 60: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Jerusalem 80: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Jerusalem 52: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Jerusalem 55: Cannes leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Jerusalem 48: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Jerusalem 20: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes and Jerusalem are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Jerusalem.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Jerusalem
53match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Jerusalem has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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). Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesJerusalem
Official languageFrenchHebrew
CurrencyEuro (EUR)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation0 m754 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCannesJerusalem
City population74,3501,050,151
People per km²3,7938,374
Museums within 10 km1669
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km27
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months7 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.