VacationSelector

Dubai 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

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

DubaiWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 12 points.12
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score10088
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km5210
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 29 points.29
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score6637
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 21 points.21
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score3817
Museums within 10 km265
Museums within 2 km of centre183
Share of museums within 2 km %6960
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 33 points.33
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score5320
Drinking venues within 4 km601132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre30690
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5168
Nightclubs within 4 km8410
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 51 points.51
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score1869
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5245
Park area within 2 km13 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 28 points.28
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score4921
Tourist attractions within 2 km373
Park area within 2 km13 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Dubai leads by 25 points.25
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score3712
Notable places within 2 km338
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 26 points.26
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score6943
Price level global63.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.9
DubaiWest Palm Beach
Score6675
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months120
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
14 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 40 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
15 h 5 m
no fares
AUH · 114 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
BostonBOS, PSM
13 h 15 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
16 h 45 m
€1,139-1335
DXB · 7 km
9 h 5 m
€511-537
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

MeasureDubaiWest Palm Beach
Official languageArabic
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiWest Palm Beach
City population3,944,751117,415
People per km²786
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5218
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.