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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Cannes or Kyoto?

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
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’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, Kyoto 15: Cannes leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Kyoto 35: Cannes leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Kyoto 70: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Kyoto 68: Kyoto leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Kyoto 50: Kyoto leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Kyoto.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

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

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

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). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesKyoto
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m51 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesKyoto
City population74,3501,463,723
People per km²3,7931,768
Museums within 10 km1677
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
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. 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.