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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Guilin 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 Guilin for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Guilin’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. Guilin 8, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Saint-Tropez 35: Guilin leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Saint-Tropez 72: Guilin leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Guilin 45, Saint-Tropez 42: Guilin leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Saint-Tropez 32: Guilin leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, Saint-Tropez 8: Guilin leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Saint-Tropez 18: Guilin leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, Saint-Tropez 35: Guilin leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Guilin
44match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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.

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinSaint-Tropez
Official languagePutonghuaFrench
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation153 m0 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinSaint-Tropez
City population4,931,1373,582
People per km²-320
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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.