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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Cannes or The Hague?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose The Hague for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on The Hague’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, The Hague 38: Cannes leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, The Hague 48: Cannes leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, The Hague 66: The Hague leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, The Hague 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, The Hague 52: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cannes and The Hague are level on 86.
Good for families. Cannes 56, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, The Hague 55: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, The Hague 35: The Hague leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, The Hague 45: The Hague leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and The Hague.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

The Hague
56match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

The Hague in July

21 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

The Hague 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.

The Hague's sunshine is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesThe Hague
Official languageFrenchDutch
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 m1 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesThe Hague
City population74,350548,320
People per km²3,7935,589
Museums within 10 km1654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
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.