VacationSelector

Bangkok or Palermo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Palermo
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 27 points.27
BangkokPalermo
Score4067
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokPalermo
Score8350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2613
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 4 points.4
BangkokPalermo
Score4650
Museums within 10 km10332
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %2981
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 30 points.30
BangkokPalermo
Score8353
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4164
Nightclubs within 4 km7216
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
BangkokPalermo
Score5136
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8345
Park area within 2 km42 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
BangkokPalermo
Score5741
Tourist attractions within 2 km3116
Park area within 2 km42 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 9 points.9
BangkokPalermo
Score4857
Notable places within 2 km62104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokPalermo
Score9368
Price level global29.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 21 points.21
BangkokPalermo
Score5677
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months37
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€114-166
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 30 m
€106-165
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
8 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBangkokPalermo
Official languageThaiItalian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m14 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokPalermo
City population5,676,648630,167
People per km²3,6193,924
Museums within 10 km5942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9133
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.