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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Ghent?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Ghent for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’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, Ghent 25: Boca Raton leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Ghent 62: Ghent leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Ghent 72: Ghent leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Ghent 55: Ghent leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Ghent 35: Boca Raton leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Ghent 88: Ghent leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Ghent 50: Boca Raton leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Ghent 78: Ghent leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Ghent 50: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Ghent 38: Ghent leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Ghent 60: Ghent leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Ghent 33: Boca Raton leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Ghent.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Ghent
Best match
54match

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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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.

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonGhent
Official language-French, German, Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m12 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonGhent
City population97,422272,657
People per km²1,2031,728
Museums within 10 km530
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.