VacationSelector

Shanghai 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

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

ShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 71 points.71
ShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Score1788
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance18 km0 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 28 points.28
ShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Score4517
Museums within 10 km1085
Museums within 2 km of centre283
Share of museums within 2 km %2660
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 27 points.27
ShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Score4269
Protected land share 50 km %915
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8245
Park area within 2 km83 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 60 points.60
ShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Score8121
Tourist attractions within 2 km863
Park area within 2 km83 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km101
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 39 points.39
ShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Score5112
Notable places within 2 km738
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 36 points.36
ShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.10
ShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Score6575
Monthly daytime high8.5 °C to 33.2 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromShanghaiWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
14 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 55 m
€606-798
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
14 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
14 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
23 h 45 m
€1,545-1873
2 stops
PVG · 33 km
9 h 5 m
€511-537
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

MeasureShanghaiWest Palm Beach
Official languagePutonghua
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation4 m6 m
Main airportShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureShanghaiWest Palm Beach
City population24,870,895117,415
People per km²3,922786
Museums within 10 km444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6418
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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). 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. 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.