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The cathedral from the gardens, Malaga
MalagaThe cathedral from the gardens
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Malaga by Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Malaga 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 Malaga for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • 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. Malaga 77, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Malaga 68, Saint-Tropez 48: Malaga leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Malaga 65, Saint-Tropez 35: Malaga leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Malaga 62, Saint-Tropez 60: Malaga leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Malaga 73, Saint-Tropez 72: Malaga leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Malaga 87, Saint-Tropez 57: Malaga leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Malaga 70, Saint-Tropez 42: Malaga leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Malaga 70, Saint-Tropez 32: Malaga leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Malaga 55, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Malaga 55, Saint-Tropez 8: Malaga leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Malaga 45, Saint-Tropez 18: Malaga leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Malaga 42, Saint-Tropez 35: Malaga leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Malaga and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Malaga
Best match
64match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Malaga in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °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. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMalagaSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation18 m0 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)8 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaSaint-Tropez
City population599,0633,582
People per km²1,517320
Museums within 10 km324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.