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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • getting around
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Palermo for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

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. Antibes 80, Palermo 77: Antibes leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Palermo 84: Antibes leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Palermo 44: Antibes leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Palermo 50: Antibes leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Palermo 30: Antibes leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Palermo.

Your match

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

Antibes
52match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesPalermo
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m14 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesPalermo
City population77,637630,167
People per km²2,9303,924
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.