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Events in Cannes

One event a year moves hotel prices in Cannes, and this is what it does to them. Where to stay, how long each district is from the venue, and how to get here.

Illustration: a Mediterranean seafront promenade in May, palm trees and white yachts, warm evening light along the bay
Cannes · Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

What is on

DatesEventTypeBooking
11–22 May 2027Cannes Film FestivalFilm festivalClosing

The weeks the city fills

Against what the same hotel costs four weeks earlier — our estimate, not a live rate. Outside these weeks Cannes prices like any other month.

Getting here

AirportCodeTo the city
Nice Côte d'AzurNCE35 min

Trains: Cannes.

Where to stay

Palais des Festivals
DistrictTo the venuePriceWhat it is
La Croisette5 min walk$$$$The red carpet is outside the door; the most expensive fortnight on the French coast
Cannes centre & Le Suquet15 min walk$$$Behind the Croisette, the old town and the station; real prices, same walk
Juan-les-Pins & Antibes35 min train$$$Fifteen minutes by train, a resort of its own, and half the room rate
Nice50 min train$$$A city with thousands of rooms and a TER every twenty minutes down the coast
Mandelieu & Mougins30 min drive$$Inland and west, with parking; what people book when the coast has gone

Elsewhere in France on the same dates

More on Cannes: which days to go and when to book. See also festivals.