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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Windhoek?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Cannes leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Windhoek 36: Cannes leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Windhoek 30: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Windhoek 25: Cannes leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Windhoek 52: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Windhoek 14: Cannes leads by 72 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Windhoek 30: Cannes leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Windhoek 22: Cannes leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Windhoek 30: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Windhoek 18: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Windhoek 30: Cannes leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Windhoek.

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.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on 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

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesWindhoek

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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesWindhoek
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m1,650 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesWindhoek
City population74,350486,169
People per km²3,79395
Museums within 10 km165
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. 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.