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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hobart or West Palm Beach?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, West Palm Beach 52: Hobart leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, West Palm Beach 42: Hobart leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, West Palm Beach 36: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, West Palm Beach 58: Hobart leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, West Palm Beach 55: Hobart leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, West Palm Beach 38: Hobart leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, West Palm Beach 23: Hobart leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Hobart
48match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HobartWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHobartWest Palm Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation54 m6 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartWest Palm Beach
City population197,451117,415
People per km²116786
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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.