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The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Saint-Tropez or Steamboat Springs?

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 Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’s own page.

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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. Saint-Tropez 82, Steamboat Springs 7: Saint-Tropez leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, Steamboat Springs 30: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, Steamboat Springs 14: Saint-Tropez leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, Steamboat Springs 20: Saint-Tropez leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, Steamboat Springs 12: Saint-Tropez leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez 32, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, Steamboat Springs 22: Saint-Tropez leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, Steamboat Springs 17: Steamboat Springs leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, Steamboat Springs 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez 35, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Saint-Tropez and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Steamboat Springs 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezSteamboat Springs
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,052 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezSteamboat Springs
City population3,58213,224
People per km²320503
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.