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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Krakow?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Krakow for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Cannes leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Cannes and Krakow are level on 55.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Krakow 62: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Krakow 76: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Krakow 48: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Krakow 36: Cannes leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Krakow.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

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

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesKrakow

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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesKrakow
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m219 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesKrakow
City population74,350804,237
People per km²3,7932,459
Museums within 10 km16113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
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. 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.