VacationSelector

Dublin 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

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

DublinWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 39 points.39
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score4988
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1110
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 33 points.33
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score7037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3714
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 38 points.38
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score5517
Museums within 10 km475
Museums within 2 km of centre373
Share of museums within 2 km %7960
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 44 points.44
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score6420
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre93490
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7568
Nightclubs within 4 km4010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 43 points.43
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score2669
Protected land share 50 km %315
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6245
Park area within 2 km43 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 33 points.33
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score5421
Tourist attractions within 2 km413
Park area within 2 km43 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 50 points.50
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score6212
Notable places within 2 km1418
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.21
DublinWest Palm Beach
Score5475
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months00
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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
6 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 20 m
€519-589
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
FLL · 72 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 2026-08 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

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 centre201 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre7418
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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. 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.