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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
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Palm Beach or Winter Park, Colorado?

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 Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’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, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Palm Beach leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Palm Beach leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Palm Beach leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach and Winter Park, Colorado are level on 62.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Palm Beach leads by 54 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Palm Beach leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Winter Park, Colorado.

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.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 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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Palm BeachWinter Park, Colorado

Where the figures come from

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado 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). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachWinter Park, Colorado
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 m2,759 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachWinter Park, Colorado
City population9,2451,033
People per km²32224
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.