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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Miami 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

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami 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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Miami Beach 52: Miami Beach leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Miami Beach 52: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Miami Beach 55: Cannes leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Miami Beach 60: Miami Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Miami Beach 58: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Miami Beach 55: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Miami Beach 20: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Miami Beach 48: Miami Beach leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Miami Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cannes
55match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Miami Beach
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMiami Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m1 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMiami Beach
City population74,35082,890
People per km²3,7932,109
Museums within 10 km1614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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.