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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Catania 72, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Saint-Tropez 48: Catania leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Saint-Tropez 35: Catania leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Catania and Saint-Tropez are level on 60.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Saint-Tropez 72: Catania leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Saint-Tropez 57: Catania leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Saint-Tropez 42: Catania leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Saint-Tropez 32: Catania leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Saint-Tropez 8: Catania leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Saint-Tropez 18: Catania leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 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: Catania and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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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CataniaSaint-Tropez

Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaSaint-Tropez
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaSaint-Tropez
City population311,5843,582
People per km²1,704320
Museums within 10 km254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.