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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

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

Huatulco 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 Huatulco for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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. Huatulco 86, Saint-Tropez 82: Huatulco leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Saint-Tropez 72: Huatulco leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Saint-Tropez 42: Huatulco leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Saint-Tropez 32: Huatulco leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Saint-Tropez 8: Huatulco leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Saint-Tropez 18: Saint-Tropez leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Saint-Tropez 35: Huatulco leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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Huatulco
43match

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Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

Wins on shopping and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco 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 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. Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation220 m0 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoSaint-Tropez
City population7,4093,582
People per km²-320
Museums within 10 km04
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). 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.