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The towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light, Panama City
Panama CityThe towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Panama City by Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Panama City 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 Panama City for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Panama City 44, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Panama City 57, Saint-Tropez 48: Panama City leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Panama City 62, Saint-Tropez 35: Panama City leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Panama City 62, Saint-Tropez 60: Panama City leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Panama City 74, Saint-Tropez 72: Panama City leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Panama City 50, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Panama City 45, Saint-Tropez 42: Panama City leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Panama City 40, Saint-Tropez 32: Panama City leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Panama City 52, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Panama City 55, Saint-Tropez 8: Panama City leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Panama City 34, Saint-Tropez 18: Panama City leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Panama City 22, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Panama City and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Panama City
Best match
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Panama City in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
161 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Panama City 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. Panama City: 1991-2020 normals, Tocumen (20.4 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePanama CitySaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyBalboa (PAB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation20 m0 m
Main airportTocumen International Airport (PTY)20 km from centre92 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePanama CitySaint-Tropez
City population1,540,0003,582
People per km²5,600320
Museums within 10 km104
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.