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Cannes Yachting Festival: the 20-40m class sets the autumn order book
Mid-September in the Vieux Port opens the season for first-time buyers and brokers. Monaco closes the deals upstream two weeks later.
Cannes Yachting Festival·Mid-SeptemberThe room and the roster The Vieux Port hosts over 600 boats across the two-week window. The crowd is the production-yacht market en masse, joined by brokers and first-time buyers graduating upward. Arrivals come by yacht and jet, filling the quays rather than the red carpet.
The signal in the water Cannes sells the 20-40m class. This is the season’s order book opening, not the closing. The show sets the volume and pricing baseline before Monaco takes the larger tonnage upstream.
The calendar logic Mid-September is the hinge. Cannes anchors the autumn yacht-market season. Two weeks later, Monaco closes the deals for the segment above the Cannes ceiling.
What to watch on 13 September By the second weekend, the order book is legible. Note which builders move volume in the 20-40m range and which brokers are most visible on the quays. That read telegraphs the Monaco close.
Book around Cannes Yachting Festival
with GetYourGuideThe festival fills the Vieux Port, the same harbour the Lérins ferries leave from.
- Ferry to Sainte-Marguerite IslandA short crossing from the Port of Cannes to the Royal Fort and the Man in the Iron Mask’s cell.Check dates
- Boat from Cannes to Saint-Tropez and backAlong the Estérel coast by sea, with the afternoon in the port.Check dates
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Cannes Yachting Festival
Europe’s biggest on-water boat show opens the autumn yacht-market season: 600+ boats in the Vieux Port, two weeks before Monaco closes the deals upstream.
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