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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cannes or Seville?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Seville for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Cannes leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Seville 73: Seville leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Seville 82: Seville leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Seville 62: Seville leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Seville 52: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Seville 80: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Seville 55: Cannes leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Seville 72: Seville leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Seville 55: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Seville 58: Seville leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Seville 68: Seville leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Seville 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 Seville.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesSeville
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 m18 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSeville
City population74,350689,423
People per km²3,7934,896
Museums within 10 km1624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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.