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The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Mexico City 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 Mexico City for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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. Mexico City 5, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Mexico City 90, Saint-Tropez 48: Mexico City leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Mexico City 88, Saint-Tropez 35: Mexico City leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Mexico City 80, Saint-Tropez 60: Mexico City leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mexico City 50, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Mexico City 75, Saint-Tropez 57: Mexico City leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Mexico City 58, Saint-Tropez 42: Mexico City leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Mexico City 50, Saint-Tropez 32: Mexico City leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Mexico City 76, Saint-Tropez 64: Mexico City leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Mexico City 75, Saint-Tropez 8: Mexico City leads by 67 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mexico City 72, Saint-Tropez 18: Mexico City leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mexico City 40, Saint-Tropez 35: Mexico City leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mexico City and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts 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.

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMexico CitySaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m0 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySaint-Tropez
City population9,209,9443,582
People per km²6,202320
Museums within 10 km1084
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
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). 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. 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.

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.