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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bogota or West Palm Beach?

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 Bogota for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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. Bogota 5, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, West Palm Beach 52: Bogota leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, West Palm Beach 42: Bogota leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, West Palm Beach 36: Bogota leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, West Palm Beach 58: Bogota leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Bogota 45, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, West Palm Beach 38: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, West Palm Beach 23: Bogota leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, West Palm Beach 47: Bogota leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bogota
52match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BogotaWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBogotaWest Palm Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation2,582 m6 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaWest Palm Beach
City population8,034,649117,415
People per km²5,092786
Museums within 10 km304
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.