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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Puerto Plata 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 Puerto Plata for

  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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. Puerto Plata 80, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata and Saint-Tropez are level on 35.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Saint-Tropez 42: Puerto Plata leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Saint-Tropez 8: Puerto Plata leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata and Saint-Tropez are level on 18.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata and Saint-Tropez are level on 35.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on prices and families 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.

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

Puerto Plata 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. Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m0 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataSaint-Tropez
City population-3,582
People per km²-320
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.