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The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima
Palm Springs

Photos: Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Hiroshima or Palm Springs?

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 Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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. Hiroshima 30, Palm Springs 7: Hiroshima leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Hiroshima 66, Palm Springs 40: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Hiroshima 60, Palm Springs 42: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Hiroshima 45, Palm Springs 36: Hiroshima leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hiroshima 62, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Hiroshima 80, Palm Springs 38: Hiroshima leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Hiroshima 60, Palm Springs 40: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Hiroshima 74, Palm Springs 22: Hiroshima leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Hiroshima 52, Palm Springs 44: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Hiroshima 58, Palm Springs 32: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hiroshima 38, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hiroshima 50, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hiroshima and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHiroshimaPalm Springs
Official languageJapanese-
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation3 m146 m
Main airportHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHiroshimaPalm Springs
City population1,198,02144,575
People per km²1,324181
Museums within 10 km183
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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.