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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
San JoseThe Winchester Mystery House

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cannes or San Jose?

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
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose San Jose for

  • families
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose’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, San Jose 30: Cannes leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, San Jose 56: San Jose leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, San Jose 36: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, San Jose 33: Cannes leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes and San Jose are level on 72.
Day trips. Cannes 86, San Jose 78: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, San Jose 65: San Jose leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, San Jose 30: Cannes leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, San Jose 48: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, San Jose 20: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes and San Jose are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, San Jose 30: Cannes leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and San Jose.

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 getting around with your weighting.

San Jose
45match

Wins on families and food and drink 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

San Jose in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesSan Jose

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). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesSan Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSan Jose
City population74,3501,013,240
People per km²3,7932,167
Museums within 10 km1619
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. 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.