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The Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía, Cusco
CuscoThe Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Cusco by Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Cusco 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 Cusco for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • families
  • 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. Cusco 3, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Cusco 56, Saint-Tropez 48: Cusco leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cusco 81, Saint-Tropez 35: Cusco leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Cusco 42, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cusco 86, Saint-Tropez 72: Cusco leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Cusco 78, Saint-Tropez 57: Cusco leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Cusco 10, Saint-Tropez 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Cusco 48, Saint-Tropez 32: Cusco leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Cusco 52, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cusco 73, Saint-Tropez 8: Cusco leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cusco 30, Saint-Tropez 18: Cusco leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cusco 33, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cusco and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Cusco
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cusco in July

20 °Cdaytime high
1 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Cusco's station stands 151 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

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. Cusco: 1991-2020 normals, Cuzco (3.7 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCuscoSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation3,399 m0 m
Main airportAlejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ)5 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCuscoSaint-Tropez
City population428,4503,582
People per km²-320
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). 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. 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.