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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule, Munich
MunichThe Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Munich by 0xd1ma, Pexels License.

Cannes or Munich?

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

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

Choose Munich for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Munich’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, Munich 28: Cannes leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Munich 62: Munich leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Munich 79: Munich leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Munich 56: Munich leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Munich 82: Munich leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cannes and Munich are level on 86.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Munich 78: Munich leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Munich 86: Munich leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Munich 72: Munich leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Munich 32: Munich leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Munich 84: Munich leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Munich 62: Munich leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Munich.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Munich
Best match
67match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Munich in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMunich
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m519 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMunich
City population74,3501,505,036
People per km²3,7934,844
Museums within 10 km1674
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.