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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Porto?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Porto for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Cannes leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Porto 70: Porto leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Porto 68: Porto leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Porto 65: Porto leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Porto 64: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Porto 79: Cannes leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Porto 52: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Porto 66: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Porto 52: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Porto 62: Porto leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Porto 52: Porto leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Porto 34: Cannes leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Porto.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesPorto

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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesPorto
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m104 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPorto
City population74,350273,476
People per km²3,7936,606
Museums within 10 km1642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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.