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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 Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Palm Beach or Sydney?

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

  • day trips

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

Choose Sydney for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Sydney 50: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Sydney 22: Sydney leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach and Sydney are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Sydney.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on day trips with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Palm BeachSydney

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachSydney
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachSydney
City population9,2455,450,496
People per km²322449
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.