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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cannes or Phnom Penh?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Cannes leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Phnom Penh 28: Cannes leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Phnom Penh 34: Cannes leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Phnom Penh 32: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Phnom Penh 35: Cannes leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Phnom Penh 46: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Phnom Penh 32: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Phnom Penh 50: Phnom Penh leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Phnom Penh.

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.

Phnom Penh
44match

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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesPhnom Penh

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesPhnom Penh
Official languageFrenchKhmer
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPhnom Penh
City population74,3502,129,371
People per km²3,7933,138
Museums within 10 km163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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.