VacationSelector

West Palm Beach or Zurich?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

West Palm BeachZurich
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
West Palm BeachZurich
Score880
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km1023
Coast distance0 km632 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 30 points.30
West Palm BeachZurich
Score3767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre262974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1430
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 39 points.39
West Palm BeachZurich
Score1756
Museums within 10 km576
Museums within 2 km of centre337
Share of museums within 2 km %6049
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 34 points.34
West Palm BeachZurich
Score2054
Drinking venues within 4 km132676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre90553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6882
Nightclubs within 4 km1074
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 32 points.32
West Palm BeachZurich
Score6937
Protected land share 50 km %1516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 15 points.15
West Palm BeachZurich
Score2136
Tourist attractions within 2 km38
Park area within 2 km34 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 47 points.47
West Palm BeachZurich
Score1259
Notable places within 2 km8119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.8
West Palm BeachZurich
Score4335
Price level global100110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 22 points.22
West Palm BeachZurich
Score7553
Monthly daytime high24 °C to 32.5 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 217 mm60 mm to 128 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromWest Palm BeachZurich
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureWest Palm BeachZurich
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m408 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureWest Palm BeachZurich
City population117,415452,421
People per km²7865,147
Museums within 10 km463
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1878
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.