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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cannes or Tromso?

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 Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Cannes leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Tromso 36: Cannes leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Tromso 27: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Tromso 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Tromso 14: Cannes leads by 72 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Tromso 45: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Tromso 60: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Tromso 15: Cannes leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Tromso 11: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Tromso 32: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Tromso 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Tromso.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesTromso

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesTromso
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesTromso
City population74,35079,943
People per km²3,79332
Museums within 10 km168
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.