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Rathausquai on the Reuss, Lucerne
LucerneRathausquai on the Reuss
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Lucerne by ILOVESwitzerland, Pexels License; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lucerne 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 Lucerne for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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. Lucerne 35, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Lucerne 35, West Palm Beach 52: West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Lucerne 58, West Palm Beach 42: Lucerne leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Lucerne 28, West Palm Beach 36: West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lucerne 92, West Palm Beach 58: Lucerne leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Lucerne 78, West Palm Beach 55: Lucerne leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Lucerne and West Palm Beach are level on 66.
Getting around. Lucerne 86, West Palm Beach 38: Lucerne leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Lucerne 46, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Lucerne 8, West Palm Beach 23: West Palm Beach leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lucerne 66, West Palm Beach 47: Lucerne leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lucerne 46, West Palm Beach 44: Lucerne leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lucerne and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Lucerne
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lucerne in July

24 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
141 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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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Where the figures come from

Lucerne 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.

Lucerne's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Zurich Town / Ville..

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lucerne: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Emmen (4.2 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLucerneWest 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
Elevation436 m6 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneWest Palm Beach
City population86,234117,415
People per km²2,963786
Museums within 10 km144
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). 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.

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.