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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
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Saint-Tropez or Valletta?

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 Valletta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Saint-Tropez leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, Valletta 46: Saint-Tropez leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, Valletta 56: Saint-Tropez leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez 32, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, Valletta 38: Saint-Tropez leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez 35, Valletta 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Saint-Tropez and Valletta.

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.

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezValletta
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m56 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezValletta
City population3,5825,197
People per km²3206,496
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months6 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.