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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Quito 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 Quito for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Quito’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. Quito 5, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Saint-Tropez 48: Quito leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Quito 77, Saint-Tropez 35: Quito leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Saint-Tropez 72: Quito leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Saint-Tropez 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Saint-Tropez 32: Quito leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Saint-Tropez 8: Quito leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito 38, Saint-Tropez 18: Quito leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 44, Saint-Tropez 35: Quito leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quito and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Quito
Best match
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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.

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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Where the figures come from

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuitoSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern QuichuaFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,850 m0 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoSaint-Tropez
City population1,763,2753,582
People per km²4,735320
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

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.