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Palm Springs
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Palm Springs or Valencia?

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 Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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 Springs 7, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Valencia 60: Palm Springs leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Valencia 42: Palm Springs leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Valencia.

Your match

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

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches 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 Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

Palm Springs 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 Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsValencia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation146 m15 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsValencia
City population44,575840,792
People per km²1816,242
Museums within 10 km345
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.