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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Marmaris?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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 and Marmaris are level on 80.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Marmaris 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Marmaris 18: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes and Marmaris are level on 72.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Marmaris 65: Cannes leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Marmaris 55: Cannes leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Marmaris 38: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Marmaris 12: Cannes leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on prices 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

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMarmaris
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m7 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMarmaris
City population74,35097,818
People per km²3,793111
Museums within 10 km161
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.