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Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Tokyo or West Palm Beach?

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 Tokyo for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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. Tokyo 40, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Tokyo 98, West Palm Beach 52: Tokyo leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Tokyo 84, West Palm Beach 42: Tokyo leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Tokyo 86, West Palm Beach 36: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tokyo 68, West Palm Beach 58: Tokyo leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Tokyo 85, West Palm Beach 55: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Tokyo 95, West Palm Beach 66: Tokyo leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Tokyo 98, West Palm Beach 38: Tokyo leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Tokyo 99, West Palm Beach 64: Tokyo leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Tokyo 48, West Palm Beach 23: Tokyo leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tokyo 86, West Palm Beach 47: Tokyo leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tokyo 78, West Palm Beach 44: Tokyo leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tokyo and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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TokyoWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTokyoWest Palm Beach
Official languageJapanese-
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTokyoWest Palm Beach
City population14,264,798117,415
People per km²6,501786
Museums within 10 km1924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.