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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Cannes or Lisbon?

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
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Lisbon for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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, Lisbon 50: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Lisbon 78: Lisbon leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Lisbon 82: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Lisbon 62: Lisbon leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Lisbon 66: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes and Lisbon are level on 60.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Lisbon 55: Lisbon leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Lisbon 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 Lisbon.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesLisbon
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m100 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesLisbon
City population74,350545,796
People per km²3,7935,453
Museums within 10 km1680
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.