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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Melbourne?

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 Melbourne for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Melbourne 70: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Melbourne 62: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Melbourne 31: Melbourne leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMelbourne
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m31 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMelbourne
City population74,3505,350,705
People per km²3,793535
Museums within 10 km1643
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.