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The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Madrid 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 Madrid for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Madrid 5, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Madrid 80, West Palm Beach 52: Madrid leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Madrid 86, West Palm Beach 42: Madrid leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Madrid 85, West Palm Beach 36: Madrid leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Madrid 60, West Palm Beach 58: Madrid leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Madrid 89, West Palm Beach 55: Madrid leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Madrid 68, West Palm Beach 66: Madrid leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Madrid 84, West Palm Beach 38: Madrid leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Madrid 75, West Palm Beach 64: Madrid leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Madrid 50, West Palm Beach 23: Madrid leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Madrid 77, West Palm Beach 47: Madrid leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Madrid 36, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Madrid and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMadridWest Palm Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation663 m6 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 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

MeasureMadridWest Palm Beach
City population3,506,730117,415
People per km²5,801786
Museums within 10 km884
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
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). 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. 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.