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The old Bath House in the Government Gardens, Rotorua
RotoruaThe old Bath House in the Government Gardens
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Rotorua by W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Rotorua 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 Rotorua for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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. Rotorua 33, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Rotorua 33, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Rotorua 38, Saint-Tropez 35: Rotorua leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Rotorua 14, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rotorua 86, Saint-Tropez 72: Rotorua leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Rotorua 45, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Rotorua 68, Saint-Tropez 42: Rotorua leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Rotorua 30, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Rotorua 22, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Rotorua 36, Saint-Tropez 8: Rotorua leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rotorua 30, Saint-Tropez 18: Rotorua leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rotorua 86, Saint-Tropez 35: Rotorua leads by 51 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rotorua and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Rotorua
43match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches 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.

Rotorua in July

11 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
113 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
10 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

Rotorua has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Rotorua: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRotoruaSaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, MāoriFrench
CurrencyNew Zealand Dollar (NZD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+12, UTC+13 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111112
Elevation280 m0 m
Main airportRotorua Regional Airport (ROT)7 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotoruaSaint-Tropez
City population58,5003,582
People per km²22320
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.