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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
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Palm Beach or Ubud?

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
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Ubud for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Palm Beach leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Ubud 15: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Ubud 48: Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Ubud 10: Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Ubud 52: Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Ubud.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

Wins on prices 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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Palm BeachUbud

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachUbud
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m210 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachUbud
City population9,245-
People per km²322-
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.