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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
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Clearwater or Perth?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Perth for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Clearwater leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Perth 58: Perth leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Perth 42: Perth leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Perth 42: Perth leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Perth 72: Perth leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Perth 48: Clearwater leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Perth 74: Clearwater leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Perth 55: Perth leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Perth 44: Perth leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Perth 28: Clearwater leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Perth 50: Perth leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Perth 38: Clearwater leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Perth.

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.

Perth
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 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). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterPerth
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911000
Elevation9 m2 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterPerth
City population117,2922,141,834
People per km²1,154334
Museums within 10 km415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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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.