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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 beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Saint-Tropez or Tel Aviv?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, Tel Aviv 52: Saint-Tropez leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez 32, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, Tel Aviv 55: Saint-Tropez leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, Tel Aviv 14: Tel Aviv leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez and Tel Aviv are level on 35.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Saint-Tropez and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

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

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °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). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezTel Aviv
Official languageFrenchHebrew
CurrencyEuro (EUR)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation0 m5 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezTel Aviv
City population3,582467,875
People per km²3208,998
Museums within 10 km498
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months7 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.