VacationSelector

Interlaken 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

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1210
Coast distance713 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score2937
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1714
Museums & heritage. Interlaken leads by 6 points.6
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score2317
Museums within 10 km55
Museums within 2 km of centre23
Share of museums within 2 km %4060
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.16
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score420
Drinking venues within 4 km42132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3890
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9068
Nightclubs within 4 km310
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 42 points.42
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score2769
Protected land share 50 km %1915
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km5 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. West Palm Beach leads by 7 points.7
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score1421
Tourist attractions within 2 km113
Park area within 2 km5 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Interlaken leads by 10 points.10
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score2212
Notable places within 2 km148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.18
InterlakenWest Palm Beach
Score5775
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
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 2026-09 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

MeasureInterlakenWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m6 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenWest Palm Beach
City population6,123117,415
People per km²1,424786
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2218
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.