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Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Vancouver 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 Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • shopping

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. Vancouver 42, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Vancouver 72, West Palm Beach 52: Vancouver leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Vancouver and West Palm Beach are level on 42.
Nightlife. Vancouver 42, West Palm Beach 36: Vancouver leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Vancouver 97, West Palm Beach 58: Vancouver leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Vancouver 45, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Vancouver 72, West Palm Beach 66: Vancouver leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Vancouver 73, West Palm Beach 38: Vancouver leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Vancouver 55, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Vancouver 27, West Palm Beach 23: Vancouver leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Vancouver 52, West Palm Beach 47: Vancouver leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Vancouver 50, West Palm Beach 44: Vancouver leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Vancouver and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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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VancouverWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre109 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.