VacationSelector

Varanasi or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
Varanasi

Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach

Photo: Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Varanasi
40
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

VaranasiWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 76 points.76
Food & drink. Varanasi leads by 3 points.3
Culture & sights. Varanasi leads by 38 points.38
Nightlife. West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.26
Nature & outdoors. West Palm Beach leads by 40 points.40
Day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.13
Good for families. West Palm Beach leads by 61 points.61
Getting around. West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.10
Shopping & style. West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.9
Affordability. Varanasi leads by 69 points.69
Live music & performing arts. Varanasi leads by 11 points.11
Wellness & relaxation. West Palm Beach leads by 14 points.14
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Varanasi and West Palm Beach.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyVaranasiWest Palm Beach
Daytime high35 °C32 °C
Night-time low27 °C25 °C
Rainfall in the month249 mm145 mm
Sea temperatureNo sea29 °C
Daylight14 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Varanasi
24
29
35
41
43
41
35
33
32
32
28
24
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Varanasi
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Varanasi
12
14
10
11
23
110
249
200
146
34
2
5
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Varanasi
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Where the figures come from

Varanasi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureVaranasiWest Palm Beach
Official languageHindi, English-
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation76 m6 m
Main airportLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureVaranasiWest Palm Beach
City population1,198,491117,415
People per km²14,598786
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.