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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Plovdiv?

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
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Plovdiv for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Plovdiv’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, Plovdiv 7: Cannes leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Plovdiv 50: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Plovdiv 66: Plovdiv leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Cannes and Plovdiv are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Plovdiv 68: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Plovdiv 70: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Plovdiv 40: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Plovdiv 65: Cannes leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Plovdiv 33: Cannes leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Plovdiv 78: Plovdiv leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Plovdiv 42: Plovdiv leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Plovdiv 44: Plovdiv leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Plovdiv.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Plovdiv
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

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Plovdiv 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.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

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). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesPlovdiv
Official languageFrenchBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m172 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPlovdiv
City population74,350333,994
People per km²3,7933,274
Museums within 10 km1618
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.