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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Cannes or Zadar?

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

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Zadar for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Zadar 45: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Zadar 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Zadar 70: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Zadar 55: Cannes leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Zadar 58: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Zadar 27: Cannes leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Zadar 28: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Zadar 35: Cannes leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Zadar.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping and day trips with your weighting.

Zadar
51match

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

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Zadar 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.

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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesZadar
Official languageFrenchCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m5 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesZadar
City population74,35070,779
People per km²3,793-
Museums within 10 km161
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.