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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Vail?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Vail for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Cannes leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Vail 35: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Vail 10: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Vail 30: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Vail 92: Vail leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Vail 45: Cannes leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Vail 55: Cannes leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Vail 62: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Vail 35: Cannes leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Vail 5: Cannes leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Vail 42: Vail leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Vail 48: Vail leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Vail.

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.

Vail
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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.

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). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesVail
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,445 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesVail
City population74,3504,835
People per km²3,793400
Museums within 10 km161
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.