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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
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Palm Springs

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Hobart 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 Hobart for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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. Hobart 30, Palm Springs 7: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Palm Springs 40: Hobart leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Palm Springs 42: Hobart leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Palm Springs 36: Palm Springs leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, Palm Springs 78: Hobart leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Palm Springs 38: Hobart leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Palm Springs 40: Hobart leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Palm Springs 22: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Palm Springs 32: Hobart leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Palm Springs 40: Hobart leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Hobart
Best match
48match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 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. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHobartPalm Springs
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation54 m146 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartPalm Springs
City population197,45144,575
People per km²116181
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.