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The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Macau 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 Macau for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Macau 24, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Macau 77, Palm Beach 47: Macau leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Macau 62, Palm Beach 45: Macau leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Macau 40, Palm Beach 32: Macau leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Macau 5, Palm Beach 58: Palm Beach leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Macau 52, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Macau 48, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Macau 60, Palm Beach 32: Macau leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Macau 58, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Macau 44, Palm Beach 12: Macau leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Macau 36, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Macau 40, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Macau
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

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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MacauPalm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMacauPalm Beach
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese-
CurrencyPataca (MOP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation22 m2 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 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

MeasureMacauPalm Beach
City population682,1009,245
People per km²5,916322
Museums within 10 km284
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.