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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Santiago?

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
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Santiago for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago’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 12: Cannes leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Santiago 52: Santiago leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Santiago 83: Santiago leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Santiago 70: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Santiago 57: Santiago leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Cannes and Santiago are level on 68.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Santiago 52: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Santiago 58: Santiago leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Santiago 55: Santiago leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Santiago 37: Cannes leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Santiago.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Santiago
55match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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 in July

14 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
52 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesSantiago
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation0 m575 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSantiago
City population74,3506,257,516
People per km²3,7937,468
Museums within 10 km1654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.