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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Marmaris 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 Marmaris for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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. Marmaris 80, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris and Saint-Tropez are level on 60.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris and Saint-Tropez are level on 72.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Saint-Tropez 57: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Saint-Tropez 42: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Saint-Tropez 32: Marmaris leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Saint-Tropez 8: Marmaris leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Saint-Tropez 18: Saint-Tropez leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Saint-Tropez 35: Marmaris leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °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

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisSaint-Tropez
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisSaint-Tropez
City population97,8183,582
People per km²111320
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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. 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.