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The Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi, Kochi
KochiThe Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Kochi by Vis M, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Kochi or 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 Kochi for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on 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. Kochi 38, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Kochi 66, Palm Beach 47: Kochi leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Kochi 62, Palm Beach 45: Kochi leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Kochi 18, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kochi 55, Palm Beach 58: Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Kochi 52, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Kochi 40, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Kochi 44, Palm Beach 32: Kochi leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Kochi 45, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Kochi 88, Palm Beach 12: Kochi leads by 76 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kochi 40, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kochi 70, Palm Beach 55: Kochi leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kochi and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Kochi
Best match
52match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on beaches 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.

Kochi in July

27 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
439 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

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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Where the figures come from

Kochi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kochi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKochiPalm Beach
Official languageHindi, English-
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportCochin International Airport (COK)24 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKochiPalm Beach
City population677,3819,245
People per km²7,138322
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.