VacationSelector

Munich or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MunichWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance579 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 36 points.36
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score7337
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 44 points.44
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score6117
Museums within 10 km745
Museums within 2 km of centre483
Share of museums within 2 km %6560
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Munich leads by 47 points.47
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score6720
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre76390
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5768
Nightclubs within 4 km10310
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.21
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score4869
Protected land share 50 km %1715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km199 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 58 points.58
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score7921
Tourist attractions within 2 km803
Park area within 2 km199 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 56 points.56
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score6812
Notable places within 2 km1968
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 17 points.17
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.19
MunichWest Palm Beach
Score5675
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
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 2026-08 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

MeasureMunichWest Palm Beach
Official languageGerman
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
Elevation519 m6 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichWest Palm Beach
City population1,510,378117,415
People per km²4,861786
Museums within 10 km744
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8918
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.