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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Montevideo 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 Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping
  • beaches

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. Montevideo 55, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Saint-Tropez 48: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Saint-Tropez 35: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Saint-Tropez 42: Montevideo leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Saint-Tropez 32: Montevideo leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Saint-Tropez 8: Montevideo leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Saint-Tropez 18: Montevideo leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Saint-Tropez 35: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoSaint-Tropez
Official language-French
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m0 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoSaint-Tropez
City population1,302,9543,582
People per km²1,785320
Museums within 10 km364
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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). 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.