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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Virginia Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Cannes leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Virginia Beach 42: Cannes leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Virginia Beach 30: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Virginia Beach 37: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Virginia Beach 56: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Virginia Beach 64: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Virginia Beach 27: Cannes leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Virginia Beach 32: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Virginia Beach 40: Virginia Beach leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes and Virginia Beach are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Virginia Beach 32: Cannes leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Virginia Beach.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Virginia Beach
46match

Wins on families and prices 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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesVirginia Beach

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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesVirginia Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m7 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesVirginia Beach
City population74,350459,470
People per km²3,793-
Museums within 10 km162
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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.