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The yellow Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo, Merida
MeridaThe yellow Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Merida by Mariposa2723, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Merida 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 Merida for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • 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. Merida 50, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Merida 72, Palm Beach 47: Merida leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Merida 64, Palm Beach 45: Merida leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Merida 42, Palm Beach 32: Merida leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Merida 48, Palm Beach 58: Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Merida 80, Palm Beach 55: Merida leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Merida 50, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Merida 45, Palm Beach 32: Merida leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Merida 50, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Merida 75, Palm Beach 12: Merida leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Merida 52, Palm Beach 45: Merida leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Merida 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: Merida and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Merida
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Palm Beach
49match

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.

Merida in July

35 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
148 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °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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MeridaPalm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Merida: 1991-2020 normals, Merida / lic Manuel Crecencio (5.1 km from centre). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMeridaPalm Beach
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m2 m
Main airportManuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (MID)5 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMeridaPalm Beach
City population892,3639,245
People per km²1,010322
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.