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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Johannesburg by K, Pexels License.

Boca Raton or Johannesburg?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Johannesburg for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Johannesburg’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, Johannesburg 5: Boca Raton leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Johannesburg 56: Johannesburg leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Johannesburg 62: Johannesburg leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Johannesburg 55: Johannesburg leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Johannesburg 52: Boca Raton leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Johannesburg 42: Boca Raton leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton and Johannesburg are level on 18.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Johannesburg 72: Johannesburg leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Johannesburg 55: Johannesburg leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Johannesburg 28: Boca Raton leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Johannesburg.

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.

Johannesburg
Best match
47match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonJohannesburg

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). Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonJohannesburg
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 m1,753 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonJohannesburg
City population97,4224,803,262
People per km²1,2032,922
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.