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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 Tampa Bay Hotel across the river, Tampa
TampaThe old Tampa Bay Hotel across the river

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Tampa by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Saint-Tropez or Tampa?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Tampa for

  • families
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tampa’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, Tampa 70: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, Tampa 57: Tampa leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, Tampa 42: Tampa leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, Tampa 52: Saint-Tropez leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, Tampa 55: Saint-Tropez leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, Tampa 54: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, Tampa 78: Tampa leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez 32, Tampa 22: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, Tampa 40: Saint-Tropez leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, Tampa 40: Tampa leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, Tampa 47: Tampa leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez 35, Tampa 30: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Saint-Tropez and Tampa.

Your match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tampa
Best match
49match

Wins on families and prices 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

Tampa in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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. Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezTampa
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m30 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezTampa
City population3,582384,959
People per km²320848
Museums within 10 km46
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months8 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.