--- title: "West Palm Beach – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "West Palm Beach, United States: West Palm Beach (WPB) is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. Nearby: Norton Museum…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-palm-beach" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-palm-beach.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Great_blue_heron_in_Loxahatchee.JPG/1920px-Great_blue_heron_in_Loxahatchee.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- City in southeast Florida, United States # West Palm Beach West Palm Beach (WPB) is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. ![West Palm Beach](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Great_blue_heron_in_Loxahatchee.JPG/1920px-Great_blue_heron_in_Loxahatchee.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) West Palm Beach · Korall The place West Palm Beach (WPB) is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located immediately to the west of the adjacent Palm Beach, which is situated on a barrier island across the Lake Worth Lagoon. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach%2C_Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around West Palm Beach 10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Norton Museum of Art Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida 9.3 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Museum_of_Art) 2. Diocese of Palm Beach Diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States 9.8 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Palm_Beach) 3. Flagler Museum House 9.6 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall_(Henry_M._Flagler_House%29) 4. Cathedral of St. Ignatius of Loyola Church in Florida, United States 8.8 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_St._Ignatius_Loyola_(Palm_Beach_Gardens,_Florida%29) 5. Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Performing arts center in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA 8.3 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kravis_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts) 6. La Querida Palm Beach mansion 9.4 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Querida_(mansion%29) 7. Mounts Botanical Garden Botanical garden in West Palm Beach, Florida 7.1 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounts_Botanical_Garden) 8. Palm Beach Atlantic University Christian university in West Palm Beach, Florida 9.3 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_Atlantic_University) 9. The King's Academy West Palm Beach, Florida, USA 7.7 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Academy_(West_Palm_Beach,_Florida%29) 10. Palm Beach Hotel Historic four-story hotel located im Palm Beach, Florida 9.5 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_Hotel_(Palm_Beach,_Florida%29) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to West Palm Beach **Airports:** President Donald J. Trump (DJT), 8 km · Fort Lauderdale Hollywood (FLL), 75 km · Miami (MIA), 107 km\ **Stations:** President Donald J. Trump International Airport, 7.9 km · West Palm Beach station, 7.8 km · Port of Palm Beach, 8.2 km\ - Fort Lauderdale → West Palm Beach 67 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · $6–8 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/fort-lauderdale-to-west-palm-beach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Fort+Lauderdale&to=West+Palm+Beach) - Miami → West Palm Beach 106 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · $9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/miami-to-west-palm-beach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Miami&to=West+Palm+Beach) - Fort Myers → West Palm Beach 178 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · $16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/fort-myers-to-west-palm-beach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Fort+Myers&to=West+Palm+Beach) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=West%20Palm%20Beach) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for West Palm Beach Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for West Palm Beach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in The county has a handful of smaller municipal airports as well, serving mostly private and chartered air traffic. - Get in In addition to near-daily sailings to the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, these cities offer ferry service to the Bahamas. From [Wikivoyage: Palm Beach County](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_County), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Bacalar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacalar) MX 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 1,233 km 2. [Caye Caulker](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caye-caulker) BZ 9 ways of moving, 42 sources 1,289 km 3. [Flores](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/flores) GT 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 1,483 km 4. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,674 km 5. [Vieques](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vieques) PR 8 ways of moving, 12 sources 1,786 km If you know how people move in West Palm Beach – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwest-palm-beach&title=West+Palm+Beach&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwest-palm-beach), and the note gets an entry. 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