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The cathedral from the Torre Tavira, Cadiz
CadizThe cathedral from the Torre Tavira
Palm Springs

Photos: Cadiz by Bronch, CC BY-SA 3.0 ES, cropped.

Cadiz or Palm Springs?

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 Cadiz for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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. Cadiz 80, Palm Springs 7: Cadiz leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Cadiz 68, Palm Springs 40: Cadiz leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Cadiz 62, Palm Springs 42: Cadiz leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cadiz 45, Palm Springs 36: Cadiz leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cadiz 66, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cadiz 80, Palm Springs 38: Cadiz leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Cadiz 60, Palm Springs 40: Cadiz leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Cadiz 70, Palm Springs 22: Cadiz leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Cadiz 35, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Cadiz 58, Palm Springs 32: Cadiz leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cadiz 52, Palm Springs 40: Cadiz leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cadiz 42, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cadiz and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Cadiz
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness 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.

Cadiz in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs 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. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCadizPalm Springs
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m146 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizPalm Springs
City population109,95044,575
People per km²9,087181
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.