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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Portland?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Portland for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Portland’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, Portland 20: Cannes leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Portland 68: Portland leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes and Portland are level on 38.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Portland 52: Portland leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Portland 84: Portland leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Portland 58: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Portland 55: Cannes leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Portland 62: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Portland 52: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Portland 38: Portland leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Portland 55: Portland leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes and Portland are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Portland.

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.

Portland
52match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesPortland

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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesPortland
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m152 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPortland
City population74,350652,503
People per km²3,7931,736
Museums within 10 km1617
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.