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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Oaxaca?

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
  • families

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Cannes leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Oaxaca 40: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Oaxaca 62: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Oaxaca 65: Cannes leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Oaxaca 40: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Oaxaca 55: Cannes leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes and Oaxaca are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Oaxaca
54match

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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesOaxaca

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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesOaxaca
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m1,555 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesOaxaca
City population74,350258,913
People per km²3,7933,028
Museums within 10 km1610
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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.