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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Boca Raton or Hiroshima?

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
  • families
  • shopping

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Boca Raton leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Hiroshima 62: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Hiroshima 60: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Hiroshima 52: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima 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 Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and prices 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonHiroshima
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation4 m3 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonHiroshima
City population97,4221,198,021
People per km²1,2031,324
Museums within 10 km518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.