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The Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane
BrisbaneThe Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Brisbane by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Brisbane 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 Brisbane for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • day trips

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. Brisbane 55, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Brisbane 60, Saint-Tropez 48: Brisbane leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Brisbane 42, Saint-Tropez 35: Brisbane leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Brisbane 55, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brisbane 74, Saint-Tropez 72: Brisbane leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Brisbane 50, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Brisbane 78, Saint-Tropez 42: Brisbane leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Brisbane 62, Saint-Tropez 32: Brisbane leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Brisbane 45, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Brisbane 33, Saint-Tropez 8: Brisbane leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brisbane 55, Saint-Tropez 18: Brisbane leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brisbane 40, Saint-Tropez 35: Brisbane leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brisbane and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Brisbane
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
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.

Brisbane in July

22 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
11 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. Brisbane: 1991-2020 normals, Brisbane (4.5 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrisbaneSaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportBrisbane International Airport (BNE)13 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrisbaneSaint-Tropez
City population2,706,9663,582
People per km²171320
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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). 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.