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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Dublin or West Palm Beach?

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 Dublin for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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. Dublin 27, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, West Palm Beach 52: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, West Palm Beach 42: Dublin leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, West Palm Beach 36: Dublin leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, West Palm Beach 58: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, West Palm Beach 55: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, West Palm Beach 38: Dublin leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, West Palm Beach 23: West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, West Palm Beach 47: Dublin leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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DublinWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinWest Palm Beach
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m6 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinWest Palm Beach
City population592,713117,415
People per km²5,154786
Museums within 10 km404
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.