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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Austin by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Austin 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 Austin for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Austin 30, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Austin 65, Palermo 58: Austin leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Austin 57, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Austin 58, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Palermo 44: Austin leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Austin 30, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Austin 45, Palermo 44: Austin leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Austin 33, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Palermo 62: Austin leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Palermo 30: Austin leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Palermo.

Your match

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

Austin
50match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAustinPalermo
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation149 m14 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinPalermo
City population961,855630,167
People per km²1,2173,924
Museums within 10 km2142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.