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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
Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
VaranasiRowing boats below the ghats in the morning light

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Varanasi by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Saint-Tropez or Varanasi?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Varanasi for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Varanasi’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, Varanasi 4: Saint-Tropez leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, Varanasi 55: Varanasi leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, Varanasi 80: Varanasi leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, Varanasi 10: Saint-Tropez leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, Varanasi 18: Saint-Tropez leads by 54 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, Varanasi 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, Varanasi 5: Saint-Tropez leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez 32, Varanasi 28: Saint-Tropez leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, Varanasi 55: Saint-Tropez leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, Varanasi 92: Varanasi leads by 84 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, Varanasi 58: Varanasi leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez 35, Varanasi 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 Varanasi.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Varanasi
40match

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

Varanasi in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
249 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Varanasi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezVaranasi
Official languageFrenchHindi, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation0 m76 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezVaranasi
City population3,5821,198,491
People per km²32014,598
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.