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The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Phuket 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 Phuket for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Phuket 90, Saint-Tropez 82: Phuket leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Phuket 66, Saint-Tropez 48: Phuket leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Phuket and Saint-Tropez are level on 35.
Nightlife. Phuket 72, Saint-Tropez 60: Phuket leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Phuket 80, Saint-Tropez 72: Phuket leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Phuket 45, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Phuket 65, Saint-Tropez 42: Phuket leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Phuket 22, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Phuket 42, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Phuket 68, Saint-Tropez 8: Phuket leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Phuket 20, Saint-Tropez 18: Phuket leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Phuket 82, Saint-Tropez 35: Phuket leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Phuket and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping 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.

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °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

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

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. Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePhuketSaint-Tropez
Official languageThaiFrench
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation19 m0 m
Main airportPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhuketSaint-Tropez
City population77,6103,582
People per km²6,468320
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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.