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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
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Saint-Tropez or Zadar?

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
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Zadar for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Saint-Tropez 48, Zadar 45: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Saint-Tropez 35, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Saint-Tropez 60, Zadar 38: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Saint-Tropez 72, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Saint-Tropez 57, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Saint-Tropez 42, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Saint-Tropez 32, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Saint-Tropez 64, Zadar 27: Saint-Tropez leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Saint-Tropez 8, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Saint-Tropez 18, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Saint-Tropez and Zadar 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 Zadar.

Your match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and getting around 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

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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.

Zadar 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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSaint-TropezZadar
Official languageFrenchCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m5 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSaint-TropezZadar
City population3,58270,779
People per km²320-
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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.