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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
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Palm Beach or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Palm Beach leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 51 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Palm BeachTokyo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachTokyo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachTokyo
City population9,24514,264,798
People per km²3226,501
Museums within 10 km4192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. 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.