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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Stari Most and the old town, Mostar
MostarStari Most and the old town

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Mostar by Alan Wang, Pexels License.

Cannes or Mostar?

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
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Mostar for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Mostar’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, Mostar 24: Cannes leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Mostar 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Mostar 54: Mostar leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Mostar 25: Cannes leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Mostar 64: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Mostar 60: Cannes leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Mostar 34: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Mostar 44: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Mostar 32: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Mostar 78: Mostar leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Mostar 16: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Mostar 20: Cannes leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Mostar.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Mostar
41match

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

Mostar in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
54 mmrain in the month
11 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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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). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMostar
Official languageFrenchCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m60 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMostar
City population74,350105,448
People per km²3,79390
Museums within 10 km163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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.