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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Bath 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 Bath for

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • 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. Bath 10, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Palermo 44: Bath leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Palermo 50: Bath leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Palermo 44: Bath leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Palermo 30: Bath leads by 48 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Palermo.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath 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 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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathPalermo
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m14 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathPalermo
City population94,092630,167
People per km²3,2453,924
Museums within 10 km1742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.