VacationSelector

Budapest or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BudapestWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 40 points.40
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score7737
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 47 points.47
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score6417
Museums within 10 km1445
Museums within 2 km of centre643
Share of museums within 2 km %4460
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 52 points.52
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score7220
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,16890
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6668
Nightclubs within 4 km9710
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 29 points.29
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score4069
Protected land share 50 km %815
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km111 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 50 points.50
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score7121
Tourist attractions within 2 km753
Park area within 2 km111 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 57 points.57
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score6912
Notable places within 2 km2068
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 37 points.37
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score8043
Price level global48100
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.11
BudapestWest Palm Beach
Score6475
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months50
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBudapestWest Palm Beach
Official languageHungarian
CurrencyForint (HUF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation117 m6 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestWest Palm Beach
City population1,685,209117,415
People per km²3,209786
Museums within 10 km814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8618
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.