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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Phnom Penh?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Boca Raton leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Phnom Penh 28: Boca Raton leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Phnom Penh 34: Boca Raton leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Phnom Penh 32: Boca Raton leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Phnom Penh 35: Phnom Penh leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Phnom Penh 46: Boca Raton leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Phnom Penh 32: Boca Raton leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Phnom Penh 50: Phnom Penh 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 Phnom Penh.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on prices 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
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonPhnom Penh

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonPhnom Penh
Official language-Khmer
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Riel (KHR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation4 m11 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonPhnom Penh
City population97,4222,129,371
People per km²1,2033,138
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.