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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Cologne?

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

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

Choose Cologne for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Cologne’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, Cologne 14: Boca Raton leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Cologne 52: Cologne leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Cologne 67: Cologne leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Cologne 66: Cologne leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Cologne 56: Cologne leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Cologne 80: Cologne leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Cologne 70: Cologne leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Cologne 74: Cologne leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Cologne 57: Cologne leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Cologne 46: Cologne leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Cologne 68: Cologne leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Cologne 50: Cologne leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Cologne.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Cologne
Best match
58match

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

Cologne in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
81 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonCologne

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). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonCologne
Official language-German
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m59 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonCologne
City population97,4221,025,523
People per km²1,2032,532
Museums within 10 km540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.