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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Vancouver?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Boca Raton leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Vancouver 45: Boca Raton leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Vancouver 27: Vancouver leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Vancouver 50: Vancouver 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 Vancouver.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonVancouver
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m2 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonVancouver
City population97,422662,248
People per km²1,2035,759
Museums within 10 km526
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.