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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Cannes or Punta Cana?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Punta Cana 30: Cannes leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Punta Cana 8: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Punta Cana 40: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Punta Cana 52: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Punta Cana 35: Cannes leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Punta Cana 15: Cannes leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Punta Cana 30: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Punta Cana 44: Punta Cana leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Punta Cana 15: Cannes leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on prices and beaches 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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 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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CannesPunta Cana

Where the figures come from

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesPunta Cana
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 m28 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPunta Cana
City population74,350138,919
People per km²3,793292
Museums within 10 km160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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.