VacationSelector

Hamburg 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

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

HamburgWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1610
Coast distance22 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 36 points.36
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score7337
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3814
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 43 points.43
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score6017
Museums within 10 km945
Museums within 2 km of centre503
Share of museums within 2 km %5360
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 48 points.48
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score6820
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre83490
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6268
Nightclubs within 4 km11910
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 29 points.29
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score4069
Protected land share 50 km %1415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9945
Park area within 2 km89 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 39 points.39
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score6021
Tourist attractions within 2 km403
Park area within 2 km89 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 47 points.47
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score5912
Notable places within 2 km1188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 17 points.17
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 20 points.20
HamburgWest Palm Beach
Score5575
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months10
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
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
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg 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 fromHamburgWest Palm Beach
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
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 2026-08 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

MeasureHamburgWest Palm Beach
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgWest Palm Beach
City population1,910,160117,415
People per km²2,530786
Museums within 10 km774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8318
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.