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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Montreal?

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 Montreal for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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, Montreal 25: Cannes leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Montreal 66: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Montreal 55: Cannes leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes and Montreal are level on 60.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Montreal.

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.

Montreal
Best match
61match

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

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesMontreal

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). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMontreal
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m31 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMontreal
City population74,3501,895,211
People per km²3,7933,806
Museums within 10 km1637
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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.