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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Tunis?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Tunis 33: Cannes leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Tunis 45: Cannes leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Tunis 77: Cannes leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Tunis 38: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Tunis 48: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Tunis 50: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes and Tunis are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Tunis.

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 nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Tunis
56match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesTunis
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation0 m4 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesTunis
City population74,350602,560
People per km²3,7932,834
Museums within 10 km1616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.