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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License.

Clearwater or Honolulu?

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 Clearwater for

  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Honolulu for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Honolulu’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. Clearwater 90, Honolulu 91: Honolulu leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Honolulu 70: Honolulu leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Honolulu 55: Honolulu leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Honolulu 45: Honolulu leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Honolulu 88: Honolulu leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Honolulu 38: Clearwater leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Honolulu 80: Honolulu leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Honolulu 52: Honolulu leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Honolulu 60: Honolulu leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Honolulu 15: Clearwater leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Honolulu 40: Honolulu leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Honolulu 50: Honolulu leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Honolulu.

Your match

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

Clearwater
45match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Honolulu
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterHonolulu
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-10
Emergency number911911
Elevation9 m12 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterHonolulu
City population117,292350,964
People per km²1,1541,981
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months12 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). 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.