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Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

West Palm Beach or Winter Park, Colorado?

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 West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’s own page.

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’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. West Palm Beach 80, Winter Park, Colorado 5: West Palm Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. West Palm Beach 52, Winter Park, Colorado 24: West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. West Palm Beach 42, Winter Park, Colorado 6: West Palm Beach leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. West Palm Beach 36, Winter Park, Colorado 15: West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. West Palm Beach 58, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 30 points.
Day trips. West Palm Beach 55, Winter Park, Colorado 38: West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Good for families. West Palm Beach 66, Winter Park, Colorado 62: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. West Palm Beach 38, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. West Palm Beach 64, Winter Park, Colorado 12: West Palm Beach leads by 52 points.
Affordability. West Palm Beach 23, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. West Palm Beach 47, Winter Park, Colorado 12: West Palm Beach leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. West Palm Beach 44, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: West Palm Beach and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

West Palm Beach
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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West Palm BeachWinter Park, Colorado

Where the figures come from

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureWest Palm BeachWinter Park, Colorado
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation6 m2,759 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureWest Palm BeachWinter Park, Colorado
City population117,4151,033
People per km²78624
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.