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Beira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower, Colombo
ColomboBeira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Colombo by Mohamed Ansaf, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Colombo 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 Colombo for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • wellness

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • 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. Colombo 55, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Colombo 66, Saint-Tropez 48: Colombo leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Colombo 45, Saint-Tropez 35: Colombo leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Colombo 35, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Colombo 32, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Colombo 50, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Colombo 35, Saint-Tropez 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Colombo 35, Saint-Tropez 32: Colombo leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Colombo 45, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Colombo 78, Saint-Tropez 8: Colombo leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Colombo 30, Saint-Tropez 18: Colombo leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Colombo 48, Saint-Tropez 35: Colombo leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Colombo and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Colombo
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Colombo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
128 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
28 °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. Colombo: 1991-2020 normals, Colombo (3 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureColomboSaint-Tropez
Official languageTamil, SinhalaFrench
CurrencySri Lanka Rupee (LKR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsGM230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 119, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation1 m0 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)28 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureColomboSaint-Tropez
City population647,5573,582
People per km²17,361320
Museums within 10 km104
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). 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. 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.