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Thessaloniki 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

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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.

ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 33 points.33
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score5588
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 13 points.13
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score5037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre640262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1514
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 32 points.32
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score4917
Museums within 10 km345
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %6560
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 47 points.47
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score6720
Drinking venues within 4 km1,407132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre80590
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5768
Nightclubs within 4 km6110
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.4
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score6569
Protected land share 50 km %2515
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8345
Park area within 2 km39 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score4121
Tourist attractions within 2 km163
Park area within 2 km39 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 44 points.44
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score5612
Notable places within 2 km988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score7443
Price level global55.8100
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.3
ThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Score7275
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 32.1 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 56 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months90
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 10 m
€129-217
SKG · 14 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
€138-200
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
9 h 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
Official languageGreek
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
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 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

MeasureThessalonikiWest Palm Beach
City population309,617117,415
People per km²16,042786
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4518
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). 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.