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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light, Panama City
Panama CityThe towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Panama City by Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Panama City?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Panama City for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Panama City’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, Panama City 44: Cannes leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Panama City 57: Panama City leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Panama City 74: Panama City leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Panama City 50: Cannes leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Panama City 45: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Panama City 40: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Panama City 52: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Panama City 55: Panama City leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Panama City 34: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Panama City 22: Cannes leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Panama City.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Panama City
50match

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

Panama City in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
161 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesPanama City

Where the figures come from

Panama City 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.

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). Panama City: 1991-2020 normals, Tocumen (20.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesPanama City
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Balboa (PAB)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsTocumen International Airport (PTY)20 km from centre92 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPanama City
City population74,3501,540,000
People per km²3,7935,600
Museums within 10 km1610
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.