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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Santiago de Compostela?

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
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’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, Santiago de Compostela 32: Cannes leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Santiago de Compostela 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Santiago de Compostela 62: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Santiago de Compostela 72: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Santiago de Compostela 42: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Santiago de Compostela 35: Cannes leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Santiago de Compostela 64: Santiago de Compostela leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes and Santiago de Compostela are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Santiago de Compostela.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
54match

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

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 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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CannesSantiago de Compostela

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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesSantiago de Compostela
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m260 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSantiago de Compostela
City population74,350100,965
People per km²3,793459
Museums within 10 km166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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.