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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Petronas Twin Towers from KLCC Park, Kuala Lumpur
Kuala LumpurThe Petronas Twin Towers from KLCC Park

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Kuala Lumpur by Brownc, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Kuala Lumpur?

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
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Kuala Lumpur for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Kuala Lumpur’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, Kuala Lumpur 12: Cannes leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Kuala Lumpur 82: Kuala Lumpur leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Kuala Lumpur 57: Kuala Lumpur leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Kuala Lumpur 54: Kuala Lumpur leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Kuala Lumpur 47: Cannes leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Kuala Lumpur 52: Cannes leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Kuala Lumpur 64: Kuala Lumpur leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Kuala Lumpur 57: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Kuala Lumpur 66: Kuala Lumpur leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Kuala Lumpur 75: Kuala Lumpur leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Kuala Lumpur 42: Kuala Lumpur leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Kuala Lumpur 44: Kuala Lumpur leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Kuala Lumpur.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Kuala Lumpur
54match

Wins on prices 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

Kuala Lumpur in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
139 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesKuala Lumpur

Where the figures come from

Kuala Lumpur's temperatures are measured 46 km from the centre, at Sepang/KL International Airport.

Kuala Lumpur 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). Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesKuala Lumpur
Official languageFrenchMalay
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre146 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCannesKuala Lumpur
City population74,3509,000,280
People per km²3,79336,932
Museums within 10 km1625
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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.