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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Cannes or Sydney?

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

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

Choose Sydney for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Sydney 50: Cannes leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Cannes and Sydney are level on 22.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Sydney 55: Sydney leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Sydney.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on day trips with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesSydney
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSydney
City population74,3505,450,496
People per km²3,793449
Museums within 10 km1638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.