Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.
Puerto Plata or West Palm Beach?
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 Puerto Plata for
- prices
- nature and the outdoors
- nightlife
What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’s own page.
Choose West Palm Beach for
- shopping
- live music and the arts
- food and drink
What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and West Palm Beach.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.
Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.
What matters to you?
When should you go?
Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.
Puerto Plata in July
West Palm Beach in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
Where the figures come from
Puerto Plata 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. Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Puerto Plata | West Palm Beach |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Spanish | - |
| Currency | Dominican Peso (DOP) | US Dollar (USD) |
| Sockets | AB110 V, 60 Hz | AB120 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC-4 | UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer |
| Emergency number | 911 | 911 |
| Elevation | 34 m | 6 m |
| Main airport | Gregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations | President Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days | 11 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Puerto Plata | West Palm Beach |
|---|---|---|
| City population | - | 117,415 |
| People per km² | - | 786 |
| Museums within 10 km | 1 | 4 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 12 months | 12 months |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Puerto Plata or West Palm Beach somewhere new.