Cannes Event Calendar 2026
Eleven major shows in one small city. Every 2026 Cannes conference with a hotel & venue availability index — the autumn squeeze, the three quiet windows, and where a side event still fits.
March
MIPIM
The property industry’s global market, and the show that opens the Cannes year. Around 20,000 professionals from 90+ countries fill the Palais and every hotel on the Croisette. Deals happen in private meetings, not on the show floor — so hospitality suites and closed dinners are the formats that work.
EthCC[9]
Europe’s largest Ethereum conference, and the reason Cannes matters to CH3. EthCC 8 drew over 6,500 accredited participants here in 2025; the Palais has it contracted through 2028, with EthCC[10] on 5–8 April 2027 and EthCC[11] on 3–6 April 2028. Side events run wider than the conference itself — roughly a ten-day window.
April
Canneseries
The ninth edition of the international series festival, in the Palais as soon as EthCC clears. Easier to work around than the film festival, but it keeps the red-carpet infrastructure in place another week.
May
Cannes Film Festival
The 79th edition, and twelve days when Cannes stops being a conference city. Hotels, villas, tenders and every terrace on the Croisette are committed, and rates roughly double. Brand activations here are decided in winter, not spring — by March there is effectively nothing left on the seafront.
June
Cannes Lions
The creative industry’s festival, 15,000+ delegates from more than 90 countries, and around 1,150 unofficial events along the Croisette in the same week. The beach houses — Meta, Spotify, Amazon, Stagwell, Canva — are held by the same brands year on year, so a new activation needs a decision months out. LinkedIn’s B2B summit runs the 23rd; SPORT BEACH the 24th and 25th.
September
Cannes Yachting Festival
Europe’s leading in-water boat show — 700+ boats across the Vieux Port and Port Pierre Canto, not the Palais. It opens the autumn run and takes the harbour venues with it, which is where the charter and private dining formats live.
TFWA World Exhibition
The duty-free and travel-retail market, around 7,000 participants, and the second wave of the autumn run. Buyer diaries are booked solid across all five days, so closed briefings and private dinners outperform open receptions here by a wide margin.
October
MIPCOM
The 42nd edition of the global television and entertainment market: 350+ exhibiting companies across fifteen halls, 10,600+ delegates and more than 3,300 buyers. MIPJUNIOR runs the 10th and 11th immediately before it. Evening formats beat anything competing with the market floor.
Mare di Moda
The beachwear and lingerie fabrics fair, closing out October in the Palais. Too small to move hotel rates, but it takes Palais halls while the autumn run is still going.
November
MAPIC
The international retail-property market, and the fifth show in thirteen weeks at the same venue. Confirm the dates directly with the organiser — sources disagree between the 3rd–5th and the 4th–5th.
ILTM Cannes
The luxury travel market — invitation-only, appointment-driven, and the last major show of the year. It runs into December and closes the autumn run. After it the city genuinely empties until MIPIM.
Side-Event Opportunity Map
Where a Cannes side event still fits in 2026, and where it does not.
EthCC Week — Mar 30 to Apr 2
The one week where CH3’s own Cannes portfolio proves the case: sixteen side events across a single edition, from a 200-guest reception at Lucia to an eighteen-person team room. Over 6,500 accredited participants, the beach clubs trading hands nightly, and a side-event window that runs about ten days wide — three days either side of the conference itself. It is also the only Cannes week contracted years in advance, so you can plan 2027 and 2028 now.
Cannes Lions Week — Jun 22 to 26
Fifteen thousand delegates from 90+ countries, and roughly 1,150 unofficial events along the same two kilometres of seafront. The audience is senior, the budgets are open and the whole city is already in activation mode. The catch is that the beach houses are held by returning brands, so anything new has to be committed by the winter before.
The July–August Window
Between Cannes Lions closing and the Yachting Festival opening, the Palais is dark and the plages are trading normally. Rates are the lowest of the year and you are competing with nobody. Right for a client retreat, a closed summit or a launch that wants the Riviera without the crowd — and the only caveat is that some suppliers take the French August break, so lock them by June.
The Autumn Run — Sep to Dec
Five shows in thirteen weeks: the Yachting Festival, TFWA, MIPCOM, MAPIC and ILTM, nearly all at one venue in a city of 75,000. It is the densest stretch of the Cannes year and the hardest to book into cold. But the audiences barely overlap, so a well-timed dinner or briefing reaches a room that is in town for one specific reason. Brief sixteen weeks out, minimum.
Best Low-Pressure Windows
January is the genuine quiet month — the Palais is empty, hotel rates bottom out, and nothing competes for attention. Two Cannes-specific warnings:July and Augustread as low season and the rates agree, but the Palais is closed and some suppliers take the French annual break, so confirm technical and catering cover before you commit; andlate Decemberlooks open the moment ILTM leaves on the 3rd, though the city runs on a skeleton until the new year.
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