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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Muscat?

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

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Muscat for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Muscat’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, Muscat 72: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Muscat 44: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Muscat 14: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Muscat 70: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Muscat 62: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Muscat 52: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Muscat 20: Cannes leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Muscat 42: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Muscat 45: Muscat leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Muscat 40: Muscat leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Muscat.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Muscat
48match

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

Muscat in July

33 °Cdaytime high
30 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
31 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Muscat's sunshine is measured 32 km from the centre, at Seeb, International Airport.

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). Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesMuscat
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rial Omani (OMR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112968
Elevation0 m69 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMuscat
City population74,3501,421,409
People per km²3,793406
Museums within 10 km1610
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. 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.