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The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Paphos 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 Paphos for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • 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. Paphos 76, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Paphos 45, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Paphos 62, Saint-Tropez 35: Paphos leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Paphos 38, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paphos 70, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Paphos 64, Saint-Tropez 57: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Paphos 68, Saint-Tropez 42: Paphos leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Paphos 40, Saint-Tropez 32: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Paphos 25, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Paphos 52, Saint-Tropez 8: Paphos leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paphos 22, Saint-Tropez 18: Paphos leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paphos 42, Saint-Tropez 35: Paphos leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paphos and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Paphos
Best match
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
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.

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °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

Paphos 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. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePaphosSaint-Tropez
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m0 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSaint-Tropez
City population35,9613,582
People per km²1,987320
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.