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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Cannes or San Juan?

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 San Juan for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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 Juan 84: San Juan leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, San Juan 52: Cannes leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, San Juan 58: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, San Juan 38: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, San Juan 50: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, San Juan 38: San Juan leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, San Juan 40: Cannes leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and San Juan.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cannes
55match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

San Juan
57match

Wins on nightlife 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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesSan Juan

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 Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesSan Juan
Official languageFrenchSpanish, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSan Juan
City population74,350342,259
People per km²3,7932,847
Museums within 10 km1618
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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.