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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Boca Raton or San Francisco?

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
  • prices

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

Choose San Francisco for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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, San Francisco 25: Boca Raton leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, San Francisco 80: San Francisco leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, San Francisco 72: San Francisco leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, San Francisco 14: Boca Raton leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton and San Francisco are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and San Francisco.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonSan Francisco

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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonSan Francisco
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m16 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonSan Francisco
City population97,422873,965
People per km²1,2031,455
Museums within 10 km551
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.