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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
Yellow colonial houses in the walled city, Cartagena
CartagenaYellow colonial houses in the walled city

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Cartagena by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Cartagena?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Cartagena for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Cartagena’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, Cartagena 70: Boca Raton leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Cartagena 62: Cartagena leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Cartagena 68: Cartagena leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Cartagena 70: Cartagena leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Cartagena 46: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Cartagena 33: Boca Raton leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Cartagena 40: Boca Raton leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Cartagena 54: Cartagena leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Cartagena 48: Boca Raton leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Cartagena 60: Cartagena leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Cartagena 40: Cartagena leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Cartagena 40: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Cartagena.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Cartagena
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Cartagena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
124 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonCartagena

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.

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). Cartagena: 1991-2020 normals, Cartagena / Rafael Nunez (3.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonCartagena
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Colombian Peso (COP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911123
Elevation4 m2 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsRafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)2 km from centre26 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days19 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonCartagena
City population97,422914,552
People per km²1,2031,599
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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). 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.