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The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

San Francisco 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 San Francisco for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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. San Francisco 25, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. San Francisco 82, Saint-Tropez 48: San Francisco leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. San Francisco 68, Saint-Tropez 35: San Francisco leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. San Francisco 58, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Francisco 80, Saint-Tropez 72: San Francisco leads by 8 points.
Day trips. San Francisco 72, Saint-Tropez 57: San Francisco leads by 15 points.
Good for families. San Francisco 66, Saint-Tropez 42: San Francisco leads by 24 points.
Getting around. San Francisco 70, Saint-Tropez 32: San Francisco leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. San Francisco 58, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 6 points.
Affordability. San Francisco 14, Saint-Tropez 8: San Francisco leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Francisco 76, Saint-Tropez 18: San Francisco leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Francisco 42, Saint-Tropez 35: San Francisco leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Francisco and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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.

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
15 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

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. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan FranciscoSaint-Tropez
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation16 m0 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoSaint-Tropez
City population873,9653,582
People per km²1,455320
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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). 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. 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.