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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
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Palm Beach or Sedona?

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

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Palm Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Sedona 33: Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Sedona 20: Palm Beach leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Sedona 8: Palm Beach leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach and Sedona are level on 55.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Sedona 42: Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Sedona 22: Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Sedona 34: Palm Beach leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Sedona 18: Sedona leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Sedona 13: Palm Beach leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Sedona.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Palm Beach in July

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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachSedona
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m1,319 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachSedona
City population9,2459,684
People per km²322195
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.