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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
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Saint-Tropez or York?

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 York for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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, York 14: Saint-Tropez leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, York 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, York 70: York leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, York 36: Saint-Tropez leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, York 62: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, York 80: York leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, York 60: York leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez 32, York 72: York leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, York 46: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, York 38: York leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, York 38: York leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez 35, York 34: Saint-Tropez leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Saint-Tropez and York.

Your match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

York
Best match
49match

Wins on getting around 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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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.

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezYork
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m25 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezYork
City population3,582208,400
People per km²320766
Museums within 10 km424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.