Two gateways into the gulf
The gulf tourist office publishes the route from Nice without ambiguity: take the motorway towards Toulon and Marseille, then junction 36 Saint-Tropez to reach Le Plan de la Tour, or take junction 13. The operator’s toll diagram names both interchanges: Le Muy for 36, Le Cannet-des-Maures for 13.
These are not two versions of the same road. They are two separate gateways, arriving on different sides of the gulf. Depending on conditions in the area, one is clearly better than the other, and that is exactly the decision taken while driving rather than at quotation time.
One hundred minutes is an ordinary day. The La Foux junction at Gassin remains the point where everything converges; no official source measures the wait there, so we publish none.
One hundred and twelve kilometres, the town’s own figure
The distance on this page is not an estimate: the town of Saint-Tropez publishes 112 km from Nice on its transport page, and that figure matches our grid exactly. The same page gives 91 km from Nice Côte d’Azur airport, 16 km from Sainte-Maxime, 37 km from Fréjus and 69 km from Toulon.
Those numbers do more than decorate. They let you compare the possible combinations honestly: driving to Sainte-Maxime and finishing on the sea shuttle, advertised at fifteen minutes by its operator, or carrying on by road all the way.
We suggest the first when the second stops making sense, which is a few weeks a year. The rest of the time the direct road is the simple answer, and the price does not change with the option chosen.
Parking, or not parking at all
Three municipal figures are enough to plan an arrival. On-street parking is charged from 1 April to 11 November 2026, from 08:00 to 22:00 in April and November, and from 08:00 to 01:00 between May and October. The post-parking penalty is €30.50. Place du XVe Corps offers 90 spaces, charged around the clock all year, with two free hours.
For a vehicle that has to wait, that changes everything. A timed pick-up is prepared differently from a straight drop-off, and the waiting place is chosen beforehand rather than while circling.
The two underground car parks in the centre, Les Lices and Foch, list 307 and 100 spaces. Neither publishes a height limit, and we invent none: with a loaded van, the Nouveau Port car park and its 1,477 spaces is the reference, since it is the only structure the town describes as taking coaches.