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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Palermo?

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 Adelaide for

  • families
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Adelaide’s own page.

Choose Palermo for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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. Adelaide 68, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Palermo 44: Adelaide leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Palermo 50: Adelaide leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide and Palermo are level on 44.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Palermo 62: Adelaide leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Palermo 30: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Palermo.

Your match

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

Adelaide
56match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaidePalermo
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m14 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaidePalermo
City population1,387,290630,167
People per km²1,0713,924
Museums within 10 km1342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.