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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Cannes or Puerto Plata?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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 and Puerto Plata are level on 80.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Puerto Plata 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Puerto Plata 35: Cannes leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Puerto Plata 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Puerto Plata 68: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Puerto Plata 48: Cannes leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Puerto Plata 57: Puerto Plata leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Puerto Plata 30: Cannes leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Puerto Plata 30: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Puerto Plata 64: Puerto Plata leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Puerto Plata 18: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Puerto Plata 35: Cannes leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Puerto Plata.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on prices and families 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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Plata 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). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesPuerto Plata
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m34 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPuerto Plata
City population74,350-
People per km²3,793-
Museums within 10 km161
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.