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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Key West 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 Key West for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • beaches

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. Key West 60, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Saint-Tropez 35: Key West leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Saint-Tropez 60: Key West leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Saint-Tropez 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Saint-Tropez 32: Key West leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Saint-Tropez 8: Key West leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Saint-Tropez 18: Key West leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Saint-Tropez 35: Key West leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West 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

Key West
44match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestSaint-Tropez
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m0 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestSaint-Tropez
City population26,4443,582
People per km²1,407320
Museums within 10 km74
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.