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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License.

Cannes or Laguna Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Laguna Beach for

  • families
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’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, Laguna Beach 72: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Laguna Beach 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Laguna Beach 27: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Laguna Beach 18: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Laguna Beach 73: Laguna Beach leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Laguna Beach 72: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Laguna Beach 68: Laguna Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Laguna Beach 33: Cannes leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Laguna Beach 46: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Laguna Beach 12: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Laguna Beach 47: Laguna Beach leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Laguna Beach.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on families and wellness 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

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesLaguna Beach

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). Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesLaguna Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesLaguna Beach
City population74,35023,032
People per km²3,793907
Museums within 10 km162
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.