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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Key West or Vancouver?

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 Key West for

  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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. Key West 60, Vancouver 42: Key West leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Vancouver 42: Key West leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Vancouver 45: Vancouver leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Vancouver 27: Vancouver leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Vancouver 50: Vancouver leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestVancouver
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m2 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestVancouver
City population26,444662,248
People per km²1,4075,759
Museums within 10 km726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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