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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Montevideo?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Montevideo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Cannes leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Montevideo 34: Cannes leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Montevideo 55: Cannes leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Montevideo 55: Cannes leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Montevideo 54: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Montevideo 36: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Montevideo 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on prices 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesMontevideo

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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMontevideo
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m41 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMontevideo
City population74,3501,302,954
People per km²3,7931,785
Museums within 10 km1636
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.