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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florianopolis 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 Florianopolis for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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. Florianopolis 85, West Palm Beach 80: Florianopolis leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, West Palm Beach 52: Florianopolis leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, West Palm Beach 36: Florianopolis leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, West Palm Beach 58: Florianopolis leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, West Palm Beach 38: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, West Palm Beach 23: Florianopolis leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, West Palm Beach 44: Florianopolis leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis 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, 2 points apart

Florianopolis
52match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisWest Palm Beach
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation3 m6 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisWest Palm Beach
City population587,486117,415
People per km²870786
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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.