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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
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Saint-Tropez or Tamarindo?

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

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Tamarindo for

  • prices
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tamarindo’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, Tamarindo 85: Tamarindo leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, Tamarindo 38: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, Tamarindo 5: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, Tamarindo 45: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, Tamarindo 76: Tamarindo leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, Tamarindo 28: Saint-Tropez leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, Tamarindo 55: Tamarindo leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez and Tamarindo are level on 32.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, Tamarindo 18: Saint-Tropez leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, Tamarindo 36: Tamarindo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, Tamarindo 10: Saint-Tropez leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez 35, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Saint-Tropez and Tamarindo.

Your match

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

Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tamarindo
39match

Wins on prices 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

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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.

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo 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). Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezTamarindo
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m27 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezTamarindo
City population3,5827,132
People per km²32057
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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.