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# West Palm Beach

West Palm Beach (WPB) is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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## Every way there

- 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)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around West Palm Beach, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on West Palm Beach](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-palm-beach)

What West Palm Beach has

- Y Scheduled flights West Palm Beach (DJT), 8 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Peanut Island Shuttle Boat, 8 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

26.747°, -80.131°

It is located immediately to the west of the adjacent Palm Beach, which is situated on a barrier island across the Lake Worth Lagoon.

How locals move

## Getting around West Palm Beach the local way

- 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. Last edited 2026-07.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach%2C_Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Korall (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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