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United States · Noord-Amerika

Palm Beach

An American winter resort island, in season from Thanksgiving to the U.S. Open Polo final.

Een bestemmingspagina is geordend naar tijd: wanneer de locatie van belang is, welke evenementen dat belang bepalen, en hoe die locatie door het jaar verandert — gevolgd door de praktische geografie (luchthavens, jachthavens, wijken, hotelgebieden).

Palm Beach is an 18-mile barrier island off Florida's southeastern coast, never wider than three-quarters of a mile, separated from the mainland city of West Palm Beach by the Intracoastal Waterway. Henry Flagler built the town from nothing in the 1890s, extending his Florida East Coast Railway south and opening the resort hotels that drew the first winter colony from the American Northeast. The roughly 9,000 residents counted in the 2020 census are reported to swell toward 25,000 each winter, when seasonal residents return to estates and apartments left largely empty the rest of the year.

That seasonal rhythm, not any single fixture, defines Palm Beach's calendar. A run of galas, art and antiques fairs and a Ferrari concours on the island, alongside twelve straight weeks of show jumping and a full polo season in nearby Wellington, fill the months from around Thanksgiving to Easter, after which the town empties out for a quiet, hurricane-season summer.

01Wanneer Palm Beach zaken

Twaalf maanden activiteit berekend op basis van de evenementen in de kalender van deze bestemming — het belang van elk evenement uitgespreid over de dagen die het beslaat. De evenementen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor elke maand staan naast de balk vermeld.

Jan Winter Equestrian Festival, International Red Cross Ball
Feb Winter Equestrian Festival, Cavallino Classic, The Palm Beach Show
Mar Winter Equestrian Festival, Palm Beach International Boat Show
Apr U.S. Open Polo Championship
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Winter Equestrian Festival · Jan–Feb–MarCavallino Classic and the Palm Beach Show · FebPalm Beach International Boat Show · MarU.S. Open Polo Championship · Apr
Palm Beach Town Hall, looking N.W., from County Road, Palm Beach, Florida, USA Society Of The 4 Arts Garden Palm Beach Florida The old Biltmore on Palm Beach, Lake Worth, West Palm Beach, Florida Clock tower in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Florida State Road A1A (Worth Avenue) Aerial photograph of the Town of Palm Beach

02De agenda hier

Binnenkort

  • 6 Jan → Mar 28, 2027
    Wellington · United States · Ruitersport Winter Equestrian Festival 2027 circuit · · 2027 circuit Bevestigd
    Opmerkelijk
  • 8 Jan
    Palm Beach · United States · Filantropie International Red Cross Ball 66th · · 66th Bevestigd
    Opmerkelijk
  • 11 Feb → Feb 16, 2027
    West Palm Beach · United States · Kunst The Palm Beach Show 24th annual · · 24th annual Bevestigd
    Opmerkelijk
  • 12 Feb → Feb 14, 2027
    Palm Beach and Boca Raton · United States · Automotive Cavallino Classic 35th Palm Beach Cavallino Classic · · 35th Palm Beach Cavallino Classic Verwacht
    Opmerkelijk
  • 17 Mar → Mar 21, 2027
    West Palm Beach · United States · Jachtvaart Palm Beach International Boat Show Bevestigd
    Regionaal
  • 1 Apr → Apr 25, 2027
    Wellington · United States · Polo U.S. Open Polo Championship Verwacht
    Regionaal

Elk evenement op de kalender

Boca Raton Resort main entrance photo Don Ramey Logan, Cavallino Classic Automotive Cavallino Classic Feb 12–14, 2027 Ruitersport Winter Equestrian Festival Jan 6 – Mar 28, 2027 Palm Beach, Florida: Flagler Museum, International Red Cross Ball Filantropie International Red Cross Ball Jan 8, 2027 Charlie Kirk speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County, The Palm Beach Show Kunst The Palm Beach Show Feb 11–16, 2027 This photo shows a peaceful coastal scene with a sandy beach stretching along the shoreline, Palm Beach International Boat Show Jachtvaart Palm Beach International Boat Show Mar 17–21, 2027 Polo matches, U.S. Open Polo Championship Polo U.S. Open Polo Championship Apr 1–25, 2027

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03Waarom het relevant is

Palm Beach's claim on the calendar is that of an American answer to Europe's winter resorts: a small, wealthy town whose season was built deliberately, by one developer, as a winter alternative to the spas and hotels Gilded Age fortunes had previously traveled to. Its equestrian and polo scene in neighboring Wellington has since outgrown the island's own society calendar of galas and antiques fairs, drawing a larger and more international audience. In our reading, Palm Beach now functions as a paired system: the island for its historic social season, Wellington for the sport that now carries the bigger crowd.

04Het jaar, maand voor maand

JanuariThe International Red Cross Ball at The Breakers traditionally opens the social season in the first or second week of January, as the Winter Equestrian Festival begins in Wellington.
FebruariThe Cavallino Classic Ferrari concours and the Palm Beach Show's antiques and jewelry fair both fall around Presidents' Day weekend.
MaartThe Palm Beach International Boat Show fills North Flagler Drive in the last week of March.
AprilThe U.S. Open Polo Championship's final, in the second half of April, traditionally closes the winter season.
MeiThe seasonal population has largely left; Palm Beach settles into its quieter off-season pace.
JuniHurricane season opens on June 1, and the town's part-time population stays away.
JuliHigh summer heat and humidity keep visitor numbers at their lowest.
AugustusDeep in the off-season and the hurricane season, with little public event activity.
SeptemberThe quietest month of the calendar, with the winter season's return still weeks off.
OktoberPreparations for the equestrian season and the opening galas begin as hurricane season winds down.
NovemberSeasonal residents begin returning around Thanksgiving, the informal start of the winter population swell.
DecemberThe town fills through the holidays ahead of January's Red Cross Ball and the equestrian season's opening weeks.

05Weer per maand

MaandHoog °CMin °CNeerslag mmZee °C
Januari23.913.979.525.2
Februari25.015.071.624.9
Maart26.116.792.925.2
April27.818.9116.626.1
Mei30.021.7114.627.3
Juni31.123.3210.828.6
Juli32.224.4146.329.5
Augustus32.224.4201.930.0
September31.123.9212.129.6
Oktober29.422.2130.328.7
November26.718.9120.727.3
December24.415.685.926.2
 Bron: Wikipedia climate table for Palm Beach, Florida (National Weather Service data), converted here from Fahrenheit; sea temperatures from Seatemperature.info's West Palm Beach monthly averages (a trailing 10-year mean blending satellite and in-situ data, per the site's own methodology note), converted from Fahrenheit. Langetermijngemiddelden; een bepaalde week kan afwijken.

06Hoe er te komen en te bewegen

LuchthavensPalm Beach International, renamed Donald J. Trump International Airport in July 2026 (DJT) · 5 km · commercieel — just west of the town across the Intracoastal; the airport's code changed from PBI to DJT on August 18, 2026, though some booking and display systems were still showing the former code in the weeks after.
PrivéluchtvaartBusiness jet traffic uses FBOs including Signature Flight Support at the region's main airport; Boca Raton Airport, about forty minutes south, is a smaller field also used during the Cavallino Classic's programme.
JachthavensPalm Harbor Marina — on the West Palm Beach waterfront, host to the Palm Beach International Boat Show's superyacht section.
Verplaatsing ter plaatsePalm Beach's commercial core is walkable, though most visitors arrive by car; bridges over the Intracoastal Waterway connect the island to West Palm Beach, where the airport, Amtrak and Tri-Rail commuter rail are based. Wellington has no rail service and runs entirely on local roads.

07Waar alles zich bevindt

Wijken

Palm Beach (the island)an 18-mile barrier island holding Worth Avenue and the town's grand estates, never wider than three-quarters of a mile.
West Palm Beachthe mainland city across the Intracoastal, holding the Convention Center, Flagler Drive's waterfront and most of the area's hotel capacity.
Wellingtonan inland village about twenty minutes west, built up around the equestrian and polo grounds that fill it each winter.

Hotelgebieden

Palm Beach island holds a small stock of grand hotels near Worth Avenue, the traditional address for the season's calendar, but most visitor capacity for the boat show, the Palm Beach Show and the Cavallino Classic sits across the water in West Palm Beach. Wellington has its own smaller hotel and rental supply built around the equestrian festival's twelve weeks.

Restaurantwijken

Worth Avenue's side streets carry the island's own formal restaurant trade. West Palm Beach's Clematis Street and CityPlace hold a larger, more varied scene, and Wellington's restaurants expand considerably during the equestrian season.

Culturele instellingen

Flagler Museum (Whitehall)Henry Flagler's 1902 Beaux-Arts mansion, now a museum of the Gilded Age era that built Palm Beach.
The Society of the Four Artsa cultural campus on the island with galleries, a library and gardens, founded in 1936.
Norton Museum of ArtWest Palm Beach's principal art museum.

Winkelen

Worth Avenue, four blocks of boutiques between the Intracoastal and the Atlantic, is Palm Beach's central shopping address, developed from 1918 around the Everglades Club and still run under the Worth Avenue Association's design guidelines. CityPlace, across the water, offers a larger, more contemporary retail mix.

08Hoe de bestemming verandert

The island's population is reported to roughly triple between its off-season low and its winter peak, filling from around Thanksgiving through a calendar that closes with the U.S. Open Polo Championship's final in late April; May through November run at year-round-resident pace, inside the Atlantic hurricane season.

09Geschiedenis

Henry Flagler's decision to extend his railway to Palm Beach in the 1890s built the town from nothing: his Royal Poinciana Hotel opened in 1894, The Breakers in 1896, and his own mansion, Whitehall, in 1902. Worth Avenue's development began after the Everglades Club opened in 1918, drawing the architect Addison Mizner's Mediterranean Revival style that still defines the island. Marjorie Merriweather Post built Mar-a-Lago as a private estate in the late 1920s and left it to the federal government in 1973 in the hope it would serve as a winter White House; it returned to her family in 1981 and was sold in 1985 to Donald Trump, who converted it into a private club. Wellington's growth as an equestrian center began in the 1970s and now hosts what its organizer describes as the largest and longest horse show in the world.

In de buurt

Cathedral of Saint Mary in Miami, Florida United States Miami A subtropical port city, busiest for Art Week in December and the Grand Prix each May.

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Bronnen

  1. Palm Beach, Florida, Wikipedia encyclopedia geraadpleegd 9 September 2026
  2. Worth Avenue, Wikipedia encyclopedia geraadpleegd 9 September 2026
  3. Flagler Museum, Wikipedia encyclopedia geraadpleegd 9 September 2026
  4. The 65th International Red Cross Ball ushers in Palm Beach's social season, American Red Cross official geraadpleegd 9 September 2026
  5. Palm Beach airport code officially changes from PBI to DJT for President Trump International Airport, WFLX publication geraadpleegd 9 September 2026
  6. West Palm Beach water temperature (monthly averages), Seatemperature.info publication geraadpleegd 9 September 2026
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