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Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Luang Prabang 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 Luang Prabang for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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. Luang Prabang 14, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Luang Prabang 42, West Palm Beach 52: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Luang Prabang 65, West Palm Beach 42: Luang Prabang leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Luang Prabang 8, West Palm Beach 36: West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luang Prabang 68, West Palm Beach 58: Luang Prabang leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Luang Prabang 35, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Luang Prabang 38, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Luang Prabang 50, West Palm Beach 38: Luang Prabang leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Luang Prabang 38, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Luang Prabang 80, West Palm Beach 23: Luang Prabang leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luang Prabang 18, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luang Prabang 60, West Palm Beach 44: Luang Prabang leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luang Prabang and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches 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.

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Luang PrabangWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuang PrabangWest Palm Beach
Official languageLao-
CurrencyLao Kip (LAK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 195, fire 190911
Elevation305 m6 m
Main airportLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 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

MeasureLuang PrabangWest Palm Beach
City population53,792117,415
People per km²-786
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.