Things to do in Saint Tropez start free: the port, the old quarter, the market and the lanes cost nothing. The paid part is three €5 museums, and the sea. If a vineyard is on your list, the wine tour Saint Tropez visitors book is a private day with a driver. Here is what each sight costs, and which tour gets you there.
You can fill a morning here without opening your wallet. The town has no gate and sells no ticket, so these are open to anyone who walks in:
If you are coming for a day off a boat from Nice or Cannes, this list is your day. You get five hours ashore, which is enough for the port, the market on the right day and one museum.
The Citadelle de Saint-Tropez stands on the hill above the town. Since 2013 its restored keep has held the town's museum of maritime history, and your ticket covers the ramparts too.
No tour goes inside, and none needs to: you pay at the door. The full-day Pershings pass below the citadel on their way out of the gulf, and the half day on the smaller Pershing shows it to you from the water.
The Musée de l'Annonciade is the town's art museum. Some of its works are away for study and restoration ahead of planned renovation work, so check what is on the walls before you go.
In winter, check the dates twice. The two long closures fall in January and November, when the rest of the town is quiet too.
The Musée de la Gendarmerie et du Cinéma is the third of the town's museums, at the same €5 as the other two.
The town's page gives no weekly closing day, so check before you go out of season.
The Provençal market fills Place des Lices every Tuesday and Saturday from 8:00 to 13:00, all year round. You will find produce, fish, charcuterie, clothes, crafts and flowers.
The scheduled boats from Nice and Cannes land at 11:30. On a Tuesday or Saturday that gives you the last 90 minutes of the market, so walk there first. The town's small electric bus also starts from Place des Lices, Monday to Saturday, for €0.50 a trip.
Compare the scheduled boats from Nice and Cannes, with the time each gives you ashore.
La Ponche is the oldest quarter of the town, beside the port. Two small beaches of coarse sand, La Ponche and La Fontanette, sit at the foot of its fishermen's houses, between the Portalet tower and the Tour Vieille.
The beaches are free, and dogs are not allowed on them. From here you walk back along the quays, where the fishing boats moor beside the yachts.
Pampelonne is the long beach most people mean when they say "the beach at Saint Tropez". It belongs to Ramatuelle, the next town south. It covers 27 hectares and runs for several kilometres.
It is a drive or a bus ride from the port, not a walk. The full-day Pershings anchor off it for two hours, so on a charter day you swim there without the road.
Cap Taillat and Cap Camarat close the long beach to the south. Both are protected. The Conservatoire du littoral bought Cap Taillat in 1987, after a 1970s plan for a 400-bungalow holiday village was stopped. It bought Cap Camarat in 1977.
If your group is more than two, a charter day is the easy way to see both. The price per head drops as the group grows, and the fuel surcharge comes on top.
Port Grimaud is a canal town at the head of the gulf, designed by the architect François Spoerry. It got its building permit on 14 June 1966. Its first phase alone covers 22 hectares, 13 of them water, with 1,100 homes and 834 berths.
The Bateaux Verts cross from the town in 20 to 25 minutes. The bay boat gives you an hour ashore to walk the canals, and the van tours stop for 30 minutes to an hour.
Inland, the peninsula's villages sit on hilltops above the vines. Grimaud has the ruined keep above its lanes; Gassin and Ramatuelle are the other two most visitors see.
Without a car, the road days are the way in. The shared van spends an hour in Grimaud and 45 minutes in Gassin. The private tour to Bormes-les-Mimosas adds an hour each in Ramatuelle and Grimaud, and two hours in the four-flower village famous for its winter mimosa.
Compare the shared van and the private days, with the villages each one reaches.
Here is every sight above, with its price and closing days, and the tour that takes you there if you want one.
| Sight | Where | Adult price | Closed | Which tour reaches it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The citadel and its maritime museum | The hill above the town | €5; free under 12 | 1 Jan, 1 May, 17 May, 11 Nov, 25 Dec | The Pershings pass below it; no tour goes in |
| The art museum | In town | €5 (€6 in a major show); €3.50 reduced | Mondays outside July to September; 15 Jan to 10 Feb; 15 to 30 Nov | No tour goes in |
| The gendarmerie and cinema museum | In town | €5; €3 for 12 to 18; free under 12 | Check before you go | No tour goes in |
| The market | Place des Lices | Free to browse | Open Tuesdays and Saturdays only | A Tuesday or Saturday sailing from Nice or Cannes lands in time |
| The old quarter and its beaches | Beside the port | Free | Dogs not allowed on the beaches | The van tours stop in town |
| The long beach | Ramatuelle | Free | Never | The full-day Pershings anchor off it for 2 hours |
| The two capes | South of the long beach | Seen from the sea | Never | The full-day Pershings, 2 hours and 1 hour |
| The canal town | Across the gulf | Free | Never | The bay boat (1 hour), the van tours (30 minutes to 1 hour) |
| The hill villages | Inland on the peninsula | Free | Never | The shared van and the private road days |
A free day here is easy on foot. You pay for the museums at the door, and for the sea with a boat.
Every price, hour and closing day comes from the town's own pages, the tourist offices or the Conservatoire du littoral, checked 26 September 2026. What each tour visits comes from its own listing.
Six hours with your own driver and guide, collected round the gulf: an hour each in the canal town, Ramatuelle, Grimaud and Cavalaire, then two hours in the flower village to the west. Meals are not included.
From $458 per person
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Three and a half hours in a shared van for up to 13, from the front of a hotel near the cruise tender pier: an hour of viewpoints in town, an hour in hilltop Grimaud, then the canal town and Gassin. Water is included.
From $145 per person
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Four hours on a 13-metre Pershing 40 for up to eight adults, boarding in town or at the Cogolin marina: the canal town, the port, the bay of villas and the citadel seen from the sea, with a paddleboard aboard. Fuel is extra.
From $1,742 per group (up to 8) plus a fuel surcharge; the amount is not published
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