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The Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens, Marrakech
MarrakechThe Koutoubia Mosque from its 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: Marrakech by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Marrakech 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 Marrakech for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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. Marrakech 7, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Marrakech 64, Saint-Tropez 48: Marrakech leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Marrakech 76, Saint-Tropez 35: Marrakech leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Marrakech 33, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marrakech 70, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Marrakech 28, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Marrakech 25, Saint-Tropez 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Marrakech 38, Saint-Tropez 32: Marrakech leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Marrakech 72, Saint-Tropez 64: Marrakech leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Marrakech 72, Saint-Tropez 8: Marrakech leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marrakech 25, Saint-Tropez 18: Marrakech leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marrakech 75, Saint-Tropez 35: Marrakech leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marrakech and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Marrakech
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches 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.

Marrakech in July

38 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarrakechSaint-Tropez
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m0 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSaint-Tropez
City population1,002,6973,582
People per km²4,360320
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.