VacationSelector

Rovaniemi 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

Rovaniemi
23
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
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.

RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1310
Coast distance99 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.16
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score2137
Restaurants within 2 km of centre80262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1414
Museums & heritage. Rovaniemi leads by 3 points.3
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score2017
Museums within 10 km85
Museums within 2 km of centre73
Share of museums within 2 km %8860
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.16
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score420
Drinking venues within 4 km52132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8168
Nightclubs within 4 km310
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 53 points.53
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score1669
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km25 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Rovaniemi and West Palm Beach are level on 21.
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score2121
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km25 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Rovaniemi leads by 13 points.13
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score2512
Notable places within 2 km178
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovaniemi leads by 13 points.13
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score5643
Price level global81.6100
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 32 points.32
RovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Score4375
Monthly daytime high-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall30 mm to 75 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months50
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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
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. Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRovaniemiWest Palm Beach
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
4 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
9 h 35 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 2026-09 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

MeasureRovaniemiWest Palm Beach
Official languageFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation88 m6 m
Main airportRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovaniemiWest Palm Beach
City population65,329117,415
People per km²9786
Museums within 10 km64
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1618
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.