VacationSelector

Lisbon 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

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

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

West Palm Beach
42
match

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

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

LisbonWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 31 points.31
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score5788
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2410
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 43 points.43
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score8037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 53 points.53
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score7017
Museums within 10 km1245
Museums within 2 km of centre543
Share of museums within 2 km %4460
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 45 points.45
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score6520
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre95690
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km6510
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.13
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score5669
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5445
Park area within 2 km77 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 48 points.48
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score6921
Tourist attractions within 2 km823
Park area within 2 km77 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 54 points.54
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score6612
Notable places within 2 km1698
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 31 points.31
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
LisbonWest Palm Beach
Score7875
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months40
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
€480-569
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 10 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
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

MeasureLisbonWest Palm Beach
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m6 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonWest Palm Beach
City population545,796117,415
People per km²5,453786
Museums within 10 km784
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre10618
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.