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Rotterdam 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

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 51 points.51
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score3788
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2210
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 35 points.35
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score7237
Restaurants within 2 km of centre862262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4614
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 43 points.43
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score6017
Museums within 10 km415
Museums within 2 km of centre203
Share of museums within 2 km %4960
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 29 points.29
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score4920
Drinking venues within 4 km542132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre37890
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7068
Nightclubs within 4 km4010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 27 points.27
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score4269
Protected land share 50 km %1015
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7945
Park area within 2 km61 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 41 points.41
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score6221
Tourist attractions within 2 km273
Park area within 2 km61 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km81
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 39 points.39
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score5112
Notable places within 2 km748
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.19
RotterdamWest Palm Beach
Score5675
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
CuracaoCUR
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 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

MeasureRotterdamWest Palm Beach
Official languageDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 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

MeasureRotterdamWest Palm Beach
City population664,311117,415
People per km²2,080786
Museums within 10 km404
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre7718
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.