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A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Montego Bay 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 Montego Bay for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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. Montego Bay 84, Saint-Tropez 82: Montego Bay leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Saint-Tropez 48: Montego Bay leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Saint-Tropez 42: Montego Bay leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Saint-Tropez 8: Montego Bay leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Saint-Tropez 18: Montego Bay leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Saint-Tropez 35: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Montego Bay
44match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BaySaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisFrench
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation19 m0 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BaySaint-Tropez
City population123,9943,582
People per km²-320
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. 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.