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The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Orange 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 Orange Beach for

  • families
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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. Orange Beach 86, Saint-Tropez 82: Orange Beach leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Orange Beach 40, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Orange Beach 7, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Orange Beach 30, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Orange Beach 60, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Orange Beach 50, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Orange Beach 75, Saint-Tropez 42: Orange Beach leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Orange Beach 15, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Orange Beach 25, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Orange Beach 38, Saint-Tropez 8: Orange Beach leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Orange Beach 32, Saint-Tropez 18: Orange Beach leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Orange Beach 32, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Orange Beach and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on families and prices with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
Best match
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.

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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

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. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOrange BeachSaint-Tropez
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m0 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrange BeachSaint-Tropez
City population8,0953,582
People per km²196320
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.