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Paris or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ParisWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km210
Coast distance149 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 53 points.53
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score9037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3314
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 59 points.59
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score7617
Museums within 10 km1855
Museums within 2 km of centre653
Share of museums within 2 km %3560
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 68 points.68
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score8820
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,69490
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4568
Nightclubs within 4 km20110
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.21
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score4869
Protected land share 50 km %2815
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km82 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 54 points.54
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score7521
Tourist attractions within 2 km893
Park area within 2 km82 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 82 points.82
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score9412
Notable places within 2 km8658
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 19 points.19
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.9
ParisWest Palm Beach
Score6675
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months10
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When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€444-536
CDG · 22 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 40 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€445-510
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Pointe-a-pitrePTP
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureParisWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation27 m6 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisWest Palm Beach
City population2,103,778117,415
People per km²19,960786
Museums within 10 km2514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16918
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.