VacationSelector

Vancouver 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

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

VancouverWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.28
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score6088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km10910
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 37 points.37
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score7437
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,330262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 17 points.17
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score3417
Museums within 10 km275
Museums within 2 km of centre153
Share of museums within 2 km %5660
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 37 points.37
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score5720
Drinking venues within 4 km848132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre60290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7168
Nightclubs within 4 km4410
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 8 points.8
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score7769
Protected land share 50 km %1915
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6045
Park area within 2 km103 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 32 points.32
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score5321
Tourist attractions within 2 km153
Park area within 2 km103 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 36 points.36
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score4812
Notable places within 2 km638
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 22 points.22
VancouverWest Palm Beach
Score5375
Monthly daytime high7.3 °C to 23 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVancouverWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
9 h 50 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 2026-10 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

MeasureVancouverWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 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

MeasureVancouverWest Palm Beach
City population662,248117,415
People per km²5,759786
Museums within 10 km264
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre8518
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.