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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Naples?

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
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Naples for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’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, Naples 50: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Naples 83: Naples leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Naples 87: Naples leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Naples 60: Naples leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Naples 77: Naples leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Naples 96: Naples leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Naples 45: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Naples 54: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes and Naples are level on 60.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Naples 63: Naples leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Naples 66: Naples leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Naples 44: Naples leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Naples.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Naples has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

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). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesNaples
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m17 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesNaples
City population74,350913,462
People per km²3,7937,676
Museums within 10 km1665
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.