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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The beach and pier at uShaka, Durban
DurbanThe beach and pier at uShaka

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Durban by Ossewa, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Durban?

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
  • shopping
  • wellness

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

Choose Durban for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Durban’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, Durban 80: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Durban 60: Durban leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Durban 38: Durban leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Durban 40: Durban leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Durban 68: Durban leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Durban 38: Boca Raton leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Durban 60: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Durban 20: Durban leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Durban 42: Boca Raton leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Durban 72: Durban leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Durban 40: Durban leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Durban 30: Boca Raton leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Durban.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Durban
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonDurban
Official language-English, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m22 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonDurban
City population97,422595,061
People per km²1,2032,634
Museums within 10 km51
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.