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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or West Palm 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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm 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 and West Palm Beach are level on 80.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, West Palm Beach 52: Cannes leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, West Palm Beach 36: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, West Palm Beach 58: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, West Palm Beach 55: Cannes leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, West Palm Beach 38: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, West Palm Beach 23: West Palm Beach leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesWest Palm 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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesWest Palm 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 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesWest Palm Beach
City population74,350117,415
People per km²3,793786
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.