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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Breckenridge 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 Breckenridge for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

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. Breckenridge 4, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, West Palm Beach 52: West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, West Palm Beach 36: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, West Palm Beach 58: Breckenridge leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, West Palm Beach 38: Breckenridge leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, West Palm Beach 23: West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BreckenridgeWest Palm Beach

Where the figures come from

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeWest Palm Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,926 m6 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeWest Palm Beach
City population5,078117,415
People per km²332786
Museums within 10 km04
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.