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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Bath 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 Bath for

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • 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. Bath 10, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Saint-Tropez 35: Bath leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Saint-Tropez 57: Bath leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Saint-Tropez 42: Bath leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Saint-Tropez 32: Bath leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Saint-Tropez 8: Bath leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Saint-Tropez 18: Bath leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Saint-Tropez 35: Bath leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath 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 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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathSaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m0 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSaint-Tropez
City population94,0923,582
People per km²3,245320
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.