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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Orange Beach?

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
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • families
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Orange Beach 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Orange Beach 7: Cannes leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Orange Beach 30: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Orange Beach 60: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Orange Beach 50: Cannes leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Orange Beach 15: Cannes leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Orange Beach 25: Cannes leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Orange Beach 38: Orange Beach leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Orange Beach 32: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Orange Beach 32: Cannes leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Orange Beach.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on families 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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesOrange Beach

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). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesOrange Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m4 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesOrange Beach
City population74,3508,095
People per km²3,793196
Museums within 10 km160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.