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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • food and drink

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • getting around

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. Los Angeles 60, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Saint-Tropez 48: Los Angeles leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Saint-Tropez 35: Los Angeles leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Saint-Tropez 60: Los Angeles leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Saint-Tropez 72: Los Angeles leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Saint-Tropez 57: Los Angeles leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Saint-Tropez 42: Los Angeles leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Saint-Tropez 64: Los Angeles leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Saint-Tropez 8: Los Angeles leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Saint-Tropez 18: Los Angeles leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Saint-Tropez 35: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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

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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesSaint-Tropez
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m0 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesSaint-Tropez
City population3,898,7473,582
People per km²2,994320
Museums within 10 km394
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.