VacationSelector

Heidelberg 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

Heidelberg
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance406 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score4737
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 42 points.42
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score5917
Museums within 10 km545
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %4360
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Heidelberg leads by 7 points.7
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score2720
Drinking venues within 4 km201132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16990
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8468
Nightclubs within 4 km810
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 5 points.5
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score7469
Protected land share 50 km %5215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km20 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 22 points.22
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score4321
Tourist attractions within 2 km293
Park area within 2 km20 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Heidelberg leads by 24 points.24
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score3612
Notable places within 2 km318
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 17 points.17
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 14 points.14
HeidelbergWest Palm Beach
Score6175
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 69 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 69 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 5 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
8 h 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHeidelbergWest 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
Elevation114 m6 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergWest Palm Beach
City population162,960117,415
People per km²1,496786
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre4518
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.