VacationSelector

Helsinki 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

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.28
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score6088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km15710
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 34 points.34
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score7137
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,005262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3814
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 32 points.32
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score4917
Museums within 10 km575
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %4060
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 36 points.36
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score5620
Drinking venues within 4 km807132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre60790
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7568
Nightclubs within 4 km4010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 27 points.27
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score4269
Protected land share 50 km %315
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5345
Park area within 2 km185 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 37 points.37
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score5821
Tourist attractions within 2 km203
Park area within 2 km185 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 61 points.61
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score7312
Notable places within 2 km2578
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Helsinki leads by 13 points.13
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score5643
Price level global81.6100
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 27 points.27
HelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Score4875
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months30
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
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

MeasureHelsinkiWest Palm Beach
Official languageFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation17 m6 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiWest Palm Beach
City population694,392117,415
People per km²3,239786
Museums within 10 km744
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7818
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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.