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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
The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Snowbird by VeggieGarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palm Beach or Snowbird?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Snowbird for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Snowbird’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, Snowbird 5: Palm Beach leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Snowbird 20: Palm Beach leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Snowbird 5: Palm Beach leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Snowbird 9: Palm Beach leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Snowbird 92: Snowbird leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Snowbird 47: Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Snowbird 42: Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Snowbird 40: Snowbird leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Snowbird 8: Palm Beach leads by 58 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Snowbird 15: Snowbird leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Snowbird 8: Palm Beach leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Snowbird 40: Palm Beach leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Snowbird.

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.

Snowbird
28match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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

Snowbird has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachSnowbird
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m2,479 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachSnowbird
City population9,245-
People per km²322-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.