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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Cannes or Mexico City?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Cannes leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Mexico City 50: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Mexico City 75: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Mexico City 58: Mexico City leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Mexico City 50: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Mexico City 40: Cannes leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesMexico City

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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMexico City
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,240 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMexico City
City population74,3509,209,944
People per km²3,7936,202
Museums within 10 km16108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.