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The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Valencia 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 Valencia for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Valencia 78, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Valencia 74, West Palm Beach 52: Valencia leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Valencia 68, West Palm Beach 42: Valencia leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Valencia 66, West Palm Beach 36: Valencia leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Valencia 60, West Palm Beach 58: Valencia leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Valencia 70, West Palm Beach 55: Valencia leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Valencia 75, West Palm Beach 66: Valencia leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Valencia 76, West Palm Beach 38: Valencia leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Valencia 57, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Valencia 57, West Palm Beach 23: Valencia leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Valencia 55, West Palm Beach 47: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Valencia 42, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Valencia and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on shopping and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre109 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 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 km454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.

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.