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Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

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

Durban 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 Durban for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • day trips

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. Durban and West Palm Beach are level on 80.
Food & drink. Durban 60, West Palm Beach 52: Durban leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, West Palm Beach 36: Durban leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, West Palm Beach 58: Durban leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, West Palm Beach 38: West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, West Palm Beach 23: Durban leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Durban
49match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 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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DurbanWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanWest Palm Beach
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language-
CurrencyRand (ZAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation22 m6 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanWest Palm Beach
City population595,061117,415
People per km²2,634786
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.