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Macau or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach

Photo: Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Macau
46
match

Wins on food and drink and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
50
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

MacauWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 56 points.56
Food & drink. Macau leads by 25 points.25
Culture & sights. Macau leads by 20 points.20
Nightlife. Macau leads by 4 points.4
Nature & outdoors. West Palm Beach leads by 53 points.53
Day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.3
Good for families. West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.18
Getting around. Macau leads by 22 points.22
Shopping & style. West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.6
Affordability. Macau leads by 21 points.21
Live music & performing arts. West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.11
Wellness & relaxation. West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.4
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and West Palm Beach.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyMacauWest Palm Beach
Daytime high32 °C32 °C
Night-time low26 °C25 °C
Rainfall in the month281 mm145 mm
Sunshine7 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperature29 °C29 °C
Daylight13 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMacauWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
BostonBOS, PSM
15 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
16 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 57 km
3 h 5 m
€278-290
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

MeasureMacauWest Palm 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 m6 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

MeasureMacauWest Palm Beach
City population682,100117,415
People per km²5,916786
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.