VacationSelector
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Cannes or Warsaw?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Warsaw for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Cannes leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Warsaw 47: Cannes leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Warsaw 52: Cannes leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Warsaw 55: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Warsaw 35: Cannes leads by 7 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Warsaw
55match

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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150JFMAMJJASOND
CannesWarsaw

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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesWarsaw
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m118 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesWarsaw
City population74,3501,862,402
People per km²3,7933,601
Museums within 10 km16117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Cannes or Warsaw somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.