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Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Penang 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 Penang for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • 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. Penang 44, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Penang 86, Saint-Tropez 48: Penang leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Penang 70, Saint-Tropez 35: Penang leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Penang 40, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Penang 55, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Penang 42, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Penang 52, Saint-Tropez 42: Penang leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Penang 40, Saint-Tropez 32: Penang leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Penang 42, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Penang 78, Saint-Tropez 8: Penang leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Penang 30, Saint-Tropez 18: Penang leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Penang 42, Saint-Tropez 35: Penang leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Penang and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Penang
Best match
52match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches 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.

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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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PenangSaint-Tropez

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. Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePenangSaint-Tropez
Official languageMalayFrench
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation4 m0 m
Main airportPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePenangSaint-Tropez
City population794,3133,582
People per km²-320
Museums within 10 km94
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.