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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Paphos?

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

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Paphos for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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, Paphos 76: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Paphos 45: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Paphos 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Paphos 70: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Paphos 64: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Paphos 40: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Paphos 25: Cannes leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Paphos 22: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes and Paphos are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Paphos.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

Paphos
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

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos 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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesPaphos
Official languageFrenchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m72 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPaphos
City population74,35035,961
People per km²3,7931,987
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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.