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The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

St. Pete Beach or Tel Aviv?

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 St. Pete Beach for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’s own page.

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. St. Pete Beach 87, Tel Aviv 86: St. Pete Beach leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. St. Pete Beach 40, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. St. Pete Beach 18, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. St. Pete Beach 28, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. St. Pete Beach 57, Tel Aviv 52: St. Pete Beach leads by 5 points.
Day trips. St. Pete Beach 58, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 26 points.
Good for families. St. Pete Beach 72, Tel Aviv 68: St. Pete Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. St. Pete Beach 30, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. St. Pete Beach 20, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 35 points.
Affordability. St. Pete Beach 32, Tel Aviv 14: St. Pete Beach leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. St. Pete Beach 20, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. St. Pete Beach 42, Tel Aviv 35: St. Pete Beach leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: St. Pete Beach and Tel Aviv.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on nightlife 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.

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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St. Pete BeachTel Aviv

Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSt. Pete BeachTel Aviv
Official language-Hebrew
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 100, fire 102
Elevation2 m5 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSt. Pete BeachTel Aviv
City population8,879467,875
People per km²1738,998
Museums within 10 km298
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months7 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.