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Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hurghada 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 Hurghada for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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. Hurghada 84, West Palm Beach 80: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Hurghada 34, West Palm Beach 52: West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Hurghada 14, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Hurghada 40, West Palm Beach 36: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hurghada 72, West Palm Beach 58: Hurghada leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Hurghada 30, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Hurghada 62, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Hurghada 22, West Palm Beach 38: West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Hurghada 24, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Hurghada 80, West Palm Beach 23: Hurghada leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hurghada 10, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hurghada and West Palm Beach are level on 44.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hurghada and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Hurghada
43match

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

West Palm Beach
Best match
50match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HurghadaWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHurghadaWest Palm Beach
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHurghadaWest Palm Beach
City population214,247117,415
People per km²-786
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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). 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.