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The lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-SheikhThe lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Sharm el-Sheikh by Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Sharm el-Sheikh 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 Sharm el-Sheikh for

  • prices
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sharm el-Sheikh’s own page.

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Sharm el-Sheikh 87, Saint-Tropez 82: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Sharm el-Sheikh 30, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Sharm el-Sheikh 12, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Sharm el-Sheikh 42, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sharm el-Sheikh 82, Saint-Tropez 72: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Sharm el-Sheikh 30, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Sharm el-Sheikh 62, Saint-Tropez 42: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Sharm el-Sheikh 22, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Sharm el-Sheikh 25, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Sharm el-Sheikh 74, Saint-Tropez 8: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sharm el-Sheikh 10, Saint-Tropez 18: Saint-Tropez leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sharm el-Sheikh 50, Saint-Tropez 35: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sharm el-Sheikh and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Sharm el-Sheikh
44match

Wins on prices and families 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.

Sharm el-Sheikh in July

38 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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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Sharm el-SheikhSaint-Tropez

Where the figures come from

Sharm el-Sheikh 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. Sharm el-Sheikh: 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

MeasureSharm el-SheikhSaint-Tropez
Official languageArabicFrench
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation1 m0 m
Main airportSharm El Sheikh International Airport (SSH)16 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSharm el-SheikhSaint-Tropez
City population73,0003,582
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). 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). 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. 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.