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Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Warsaw 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 Warsaw for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Warsaw 12, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Warsaw 60, West Palm Beach 52: Warsaw leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Warsaw 70, West Palm Beach 42: Warsaw leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Warsaw 66, West Palm Beach 36: Warsaw leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Warsaw 47, West Palm Beach 58: West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Warsaw 52, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Warsaw 62, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Warsaw 72, West Palm Beach 38: Warsaw leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Warsaw 55, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Warsaw 64, West Palm Beach 23: Warsaw leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Warsaw 63, West Palm Beach 47: Warsaw leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Warsaw 35, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Warsaw and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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WarsawWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureWarsawWest Palm Beach
Official languagePolish-
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation118 m6 m
Main airportWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureWarsawWest Palm Beach
City population1,862,402117,415
People per km²3,601786
Museums within 10 km1174
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). 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.