The Regates Royales de Cannes takes place every year in September.
The public can discover the world's finest sailing yachts, sailing and competing in the Bay of Cannes.
The highlight of the Cannes autumn season, the Royal Regattas bring together the world's finest traditional yachts in the Bay of Cannes.
The Yacht Club de Cannes, which heads up the organization of the Régates Royales, has a wealth of experience, and with good reason. A comeback. In the 1920s, Prince Henrik, King George V and the Prince of Wales, son of Queen Victoria and future Edward VII, regularly came to Cannes to enjoy the spring and autumn sailing seasons. Christian X, King of Denmark, even celebrated his wedding on the Croisette in 1898. He was a keen sailor and an excellent helmsman on his 6 M JI, a sublime 10 to 11-meter sailboat that was an Olympian between 1908 and 1952. He even proposed organizing an annual regatta in the bay. The town of Cannes, the Société des Régates de Cannes and the International Yacht Club, which would later become the Yacht Club de Cannes, asked His Highness for authorization to name the event "Régates Royales de Cannes". An immediate yes! The year was 1929. And so it was that from then on, in addition to the great and the good of the world, all the yachting world's top names and the best naval architects of the day enjoyed meeting up in Cannes for a week of fierce competition.
For almost a century, nothing has really changed, with the Régates Royales de Cannes attracting as many aesthetes and epicureans of classic sailing as ever, on the world's finest traditional monohulls, magnificently restored and maintained.
The highlight of the Cannes autumn season, the Royal Regattas bring together the world's finest traditional yachts in the Bay of Cannes.
The Yacht Club de Cannes, which heads up the organization of the Régates Royales, has a wealth of experience, and with good reason. A comeback. In the 1920s, Prince Henrik, King George V and the Prince of Wales, son of Queen Victoria and future Edward VII, regularly came to Cannes to enjoy the spring and autumn sailing seasons. Christian X, King of Denmark, even celebrated his wedding on the Croisette in 1898. He was a keen sailor and an excellent helmsman on his 6 M JI, a sublime 10 to 11-meter sailboat that was an Olympian between 1908 and 1952. He even proposed organizing an annual regatta in the bay. The town of Cannes, the Société des Régates de Cannes and the International Yacht Club, which would later become the Yacht Club de Cannes, asked His Highness for authorization to name the event "Régates Royales de Cannes". An immediate yes! The year was 1929. And so it was that from then on, in addition to the great and the good of the world, all the yachting world's top names and the best naval architects of the day enjoyed meeting up in Cannes for a week of fierce competition.
For almost a century, nothing has really changed, with the Régates Royales de Cannes attracting as many aesthetes and epicureans of classic sailing as ever, on the world's finest traditional monohulls, magnificently restored and maintained.
Opening times
Opening times
Each monday from 19 September 2026 until 26 September 2026
