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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 top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Saint-Tropez or Vail?

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
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Vail for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Saint-Tropez leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, Vail 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, Vail 10: Saint-Tropez leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, Vail 30: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, Vail 92: Vail leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, Vail 45: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, Vail 55: Vail leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez 32, Vail 62: Vail leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, Vail 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, Vail 5: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, Vail 42: Vail leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez 35, Vail 48: Vail leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Saint-Tropez and Vail.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Vail
39match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 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.

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezVail
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 m2,445 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezVail
City population3,5824,835
People per km²320400
Museums within 10 km41
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.