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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License.

Boca Raton or Madrid?

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

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

Choose Madrid for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’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, Madrid 5: Boca Raton leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Madrid 80: Madrid leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Madrid 86: Madrid leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Madrid 85: Madrid leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Madrid 60: Madrid leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Madrid 89: Madrid leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Madrid 68: Madrid leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Madrid 84: Madrid leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Madrid 75: Madrid leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Madrid 50: Madrid leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Madrid 77: Madrid leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Madrid 36: Boca Raton leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Madrid.

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.

Madrid
Best match
66match

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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonMadrid

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonMadrid
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m663 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonMadrid
City population97,4223,506,730
People per km²1,2035,801
Museums within 10 km588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.