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The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach for

  • prices
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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. Myrtle Beach 84, Saint-Tropez 82: Myrtle Beach leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Myrtle Beach 38, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Myrtle Beach 20, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Myrtle Beach 42, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Myrtle Beach 46, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Myrtle Beach 50, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Myrtle Beach 80, Saint-Tropez 42: Myrtle Beach leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Myrtle Beach 18, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Myrtle Beach 38, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Myrtle Beach 52, Saint-Tropez 8: Myrtle Beach leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Myrtle Beach 30, Saint-Tropez 18: Myrtle Beach leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Myrtle Beach 28, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Myrtle Beach 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

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on prices and families 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.

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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

Myrtle Beach 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. Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMyrtle BeachSaint-Tropez
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation8 m0 m
Main airportMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMyrtle BeachSaint-Tropez
City population35,6823,582
People per km²591320
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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.