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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Bangkok or Saint-Tropez?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bangkok for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’s own page.

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bangkok 12, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Saint-Tropez 48: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Saint-Tropez 35: Bangkok leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Saint-Tropez 60: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Saint-Tropez 57: Bangkok leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Saint-Tropez 42: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Saint-Tropez 32: Bangkok leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Saint-Tropez 64: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Saint-Tropez 8: Bangkok leads by 77 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Saint-Tropez 18: Bangkok leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Saint-Tropez 35: Bangkok leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokSaint-Tropez
Official languageThaiFrench
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m0 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSaint-Tropez
City population5,676,6483,582
People per km²3,619320
Museums within 10 km594
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.