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A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan
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 Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

San Juan 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 Juan for

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

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • 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. San Juan 84, Saint-Tropez 82: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. San Juan 66, Saint-Tropez 48: San Juan leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. San Juan 64, Saint-Tropez 35: San Juan leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. San Juan 70, Saint-Tropez 60: San Juan leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Juan 74, Saint-Tropez 72: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Day trips. San Juan 52, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
Good for families. San Juan 58, Saint-Tropez 42: San Juan leads by 16 points.
Getting around. San Juan 38, Saint-Tropez 32: San Juan leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. San Juan 50, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 14 points.
Affordability. San Juan 38, Saint-Tropez 8: San Juan leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Juan 55, Saint-Tropez 18: San Juan leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Juan 40, Saint-Tropez 35: San Juan leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Juan and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices 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.

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine 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

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 Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan JuanSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanish, EnglishFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JuanSaint-Tropez
City population342,2593,582
People per km²2,847320
Museums within 10 km184
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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.