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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Breckenridge 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 Breckenridge for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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. Breckenridge 4, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Saint-Tropez 72: Breckenridge leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Saint-Tropez 42: Breckenridge leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Saint-Tropez 32: Breckenridge leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Saint-Tropez 8: Breckenridge leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Saint-Tropez 18: Breckenridge leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeSaint-Tropez
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,926 m0 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeSaint-Tropez
City population5,0783,582
People per km²332320
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.