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Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum
Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Palm Beach or Portofino?

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 Palm Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Portofino for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’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. Palm Beach 82, Portofino 60: Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Portofino 36: Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Portofino 22: Palm Beach leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Portofino 14: Palm Beach leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Portofino 77: Portofino leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Portofino 76: Portofino leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Portofino 33: Palm Beach leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Portofino 50: Portofino leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Portofino 29: Palm Beach leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Portofino 9: Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Portofino 7: Palm Beach leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Portofino 42: Palm Beach leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Portofino.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Portofino
38match

Wins on day trips 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.

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachPortofino
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m20 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachPortofino
City population9,245355
People per km²322142
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.