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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Cannes or St. Pete Beach?

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

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • families
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, St. Pete Beach 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, St. Pete Beach 18: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, St. Pete Beach 28: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, St. Pete Beach 57: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, St. Pete Beach 58: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, St. Pete Beach 30: Cannes leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, St. Pete Beach 20: Cannes leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, St. Pete Beach 32: St. Pete Beach leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, St. Pete Beach 20: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes and St. Pete Beach are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on families 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesSt. Pete Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSt. Pete Beach
City population74,3508,879
People per km²3,793173
Museums within 10 km162
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.