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The Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Nairobi 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 Nairobi for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • shopping

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. Nairobi 4, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Nairobi and Saint-Tropez are level on 48.
Culture & sights. Nairobi and Saint-Tropez are level on 35.
Nightlife. Nairobi 58, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nairobi 84, Saint-Tropez 72: Nairobi leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Nairobi 28, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Nairobi 55, Saint-Tropez 42: Nairobi leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Nairobi 20, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Nairobi 45, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Nairobi 60, Saint-Tropez 8: Nairobi leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nairobi 35, Saint-Tropez 18: Nairobi leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nairobi 25, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nairobi and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Nairobi
41match

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

Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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. Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNairobiSaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglish, SwahiliFrench
CurrencyKenyan Shilling (KES)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999112
Elevation1,661 m0 m
Main airportJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNairobiSaint-Tropez
City population5,545,0003,582
People per km²7,967320
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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. 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.