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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cannes or York?

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
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose York for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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, York 14: Cannes leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, York 42: Cannes leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, York 70: York leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, York 36: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, York 62: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, York 80: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, York 60: York leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, York 72: York leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, York 46: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, York 38: York leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes and York are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, York 34: Cannes leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and York.

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 shopping with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on culture and sights 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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesYork
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m25 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesYork
City population74,350208,400
People per km²3,793766
Museums within 10 km1624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.