VacationSelector

Sydney 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

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

SydneyWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.28
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score6088
Swim season months612
Beaches 10 km16010
Coast distance7 km0 km
Water distance7 km0 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 41 points.41
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score7837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,205262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 34 points.34
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score5117
Museums within 10 km445
Museums within 2 km of centre203
Share of museums within 2 km %4560
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 55 points.55
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score7520
Drinking venues within 4 km2,050132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,40590
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6968
Nightclubs within 4 km12010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.11
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score5869
Protected land share 50 km %1015
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5245
Park area within 2 km115 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 43 points.43
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score6421
Tourist attractions within 2 km373
Park area within 2 km115 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 48 points.48
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score6012
Notable places within 2 km1238
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score5043
Price level global90.2100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
SydneyWest Palm Beach
Score8175
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
14 h 45 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
19 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
15 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
15 h 20 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
16 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 45 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

MeasureSydneyWest Palm Beach
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 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

MeasureSydneyWest Palm Beach
City population5,450,496117,415
People per km²449786
Museums within 10 km384
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre7918
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.