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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Medellin 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 Medellin for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Medellin 5, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Saint-Tropez 48: Medellin leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Saint-Tropez 35: Medellin leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Saint-Tropez 60: Medellin leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Saint-Tropez 57: Medellin leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Saint-Tropez 42: Medellin leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Saint-Tropez 32: Medellin leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Saint-Tropez 8: Medellin leads by 72 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Saint-Tropez 18: Medellin leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Medellin
Best match
51match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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

Medellin 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. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number123112
Elevation1,405 m0 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinSaint-Tropez
City population2,529,4033,582
People per km²6,644320
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.