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The Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace, Split
SplitThe Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Split by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Split 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 Split for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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. Split 75, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Split 57, Saint-Tropez 48: Split leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Split 66, Saint-Tropez 35: Split leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Split 52, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Split 77, Saint-Tropez 72: Split leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Split 78, Saint-Tropez 57: Split leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Split 54, Saint-Tropez 42: Split leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Split 67, Saint-Tropez 32: Split leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Split 32, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Split 45, Saint-Tropez 8: Split leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Split 37, Saint-Tropez 18: Split leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Split 40, Saint-Tropez 35: Split leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Split and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Split
Best match
57match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping 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.

Split in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
25 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSplitSaint-Tropez
Official languageCroatianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitSaint-Tropez
City population160,5773,582
People per km²-320
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.