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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Dublin?

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 Dublin for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Boca Raton leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Dublin 50: Dublin leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Dublin 70: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Dublin 57: Boca Raton leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton and Dublin are level on 54.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Dublin 20: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Dublin 25: Boca Raton leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Dublin.

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.

Dublin
Best match
53match

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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonDublin

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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonDublin
Official language-English, Irish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m20 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonDublin
City population97,422592,713
People per km²1,2035,154
Museums within 10 km540
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. 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.