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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Melbourne 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 Melbourne for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • 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. Melbourne 50, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Saint-Tropez 48: Melbourne leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Saint-Tropez 35: Melbourne leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Saint-Tropez 60: Melbourne leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Saint-Tropez 57: Melbourne leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Saint-Tropez 42: Melbourne leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Saint-Tropez 32: Melbourne leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Saint-Tropez 64: Melbourne leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Saint-Tropez 8: Melbourne leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Saint-Tropez 18: Melbourne leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Saint-Tropez 35: Melbourne leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneSaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m0 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSaint-Tropez
City population5,350,7053,582
People per km²535320
Museums within 10 km434
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.