This is the current conditions weather report for Antibes. The report was made 29 minutes ago, at 02:30 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 13 kilometers per hour / 8 miles per hour from the north (350°). The temperature was 11°C / 52°F, with a dew-point at 11°C / 52°F. The temperature felt like 10°C / 50°F. The atmospheric pressure was 1006 hPa / 29.68 inHg. The relative humidity was 82%. The skies were mostly cloudy.
Antibes is a resort town of southeastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in the Côte d'Azur, located between Cannes and Nice. It is c. 20 km by rail southwest of Nice, and is situated on the east side of the Garoupe peninsula. Its inhabitants are called Antibois or Antipolitains.
Antibes has the largest yacht marina (by total tonnage) on the Côte d'Azur, built in the 1960s on the site of a Roman harbor. There is still a local fishing industry, much diminished from its size a century ago. It was formerly a site of perfume distilling; the surrounding country once produced an abundance of flowers. Perfume distillation is still carried out on a commercial scale in nearby Grasse.
The major attractions of Antibes are its history, climate, art, beaches and yachting. The sand beaches of Antibes are all manmade; the natural beaches are gravel (shingle in British English); in summer, these beaches are maintained using large tractors towing a device which scoops-up, sieves, spreads, and rakes the sand. Antibes' beaches east of Fort Carré (that is, going toward Nice) are still the original rough materials.
Cap d'Antibes: The southern peninsula of Antibes is known as Cap d'Antibes.
The Hotel du Cap is still one of the most expensive and exclusive hotels in the world. Until 2006, the Hotel du Cap and its Eden Roc restaurant and "beach" club did not even accept credit cards—out of sheer snootiness! Although on a seaside site, the Eden Roc does not have an actual beach; there is a salt water swimming pool with a paved concrete patio for tanning and facilities (a pier, two floats, and a diving board) at the base of their stone ledge cliff for swimming in the sea, but nothing remotely resembling an actual beach.
The highest point on the Cap d'Antibes is occupied by Phare (lighthouse) de la Garoupe, constructed after retreating Nazis blew up the earlier one, and a small Roman Catholic chapel, Chapelle de la Garoupe, containing a locally famous gilded wooden statue of Notre Dame de Bonne Port (loosely, Our Lady of Safe Homecoming), and noted for the variety of ex voto offerings left by sailors and their families... or sometimes their widows.
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