VacationSelector

Valencia 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

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.21
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score6788
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km1210
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 41 points.41
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score7837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,995262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3314
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 38 points.38
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score5517
Museums within 10 km595
Museums within 2 km of centre263
Share of museums within 2 km %4460
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 50 points.50
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score7020
Drinking venues within 4 km1,513132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre95790
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6368
Nightclubs within 4 km10810
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.16
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score5369
Protected land share 50 km %1015
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6445
Park area within 2 km119 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 21 points.21
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score4221
Tourist attractions within 2 km123
Park area within 2 km119 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 40 points.40
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score5212
Notable places within 2 km788
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
ValenciaWest Palm Beach
Score8475
Monthly daytime high16.8 °C to 30.6 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 70 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months80
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromValenciaWest Palm Beach
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€56-140
VLC · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
3 h 15 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

MeasureValenciaWest Palm Beach
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation15 m6 m
Main airportValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureValenciaWest Palm Beach
City population840,792117,415
People per km²6,242786
Museums within 10 km464
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre9218
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.