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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Cardiff?

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 Boca Raton for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Boca Raton’s own page.

Choose Cardiff for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’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. Boca Raton 82, Cardiff 30: Boca Raton leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Cardiff 45: Cardiff leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Cardiff 58: Cardiff leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Cardiff 70: Cardiff leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Cardiff 72: Cardiff leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Cardiff 58: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Cardiff 66: Cardiff leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Cardiff 50: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Cardiff 46: Cardiff leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Cardiff 57: Cardiff leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Cardiff 27: Boca Raton leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Cardiff.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Cardiff
Best match
52match

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.

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonCardiff

Where the figures come from

Boca Raton 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.

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonCardiff
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation4 m41 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonCardiff
City population97,422383,536
People per km²1,2032,734
Museums within 10 km59
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.