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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Cannes or Kotor?

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

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Kotor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Cannes leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Kotor 37: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Kotor 30: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Kotor 72: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Kotor 36: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Kotor 48: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Kotor 20: Cannes leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Kotor 20: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Kotor 24: Cannes leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Kotor.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping and beaches with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on prices 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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesKotor
Official languageFrenchMontenegrin
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 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCannesKotor
City population74,350562
People per km²3,793-
Museums within 10 km163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.