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The Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade
BelgradeThe Church of Saint Sava
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Belgrade by Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Belgrade 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 Belgrade for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Belgrade 40, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Belgrade 60, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Belgrade 52, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Belgrade 80, Palermo 58: Belgrade leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belgrade 50, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Belgrade 60, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Belgrade 45, Palermo 44: Belgrade leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Belgrade 55, Palermo 50: Belgrade leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Belgrade 42, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Belgrade 70, Palermo 63: Belgrade leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belgrade 55, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belgrade and Palermo are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belgrade and Palermo.

Your match

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

Belgrade
53match

Wins on nightlife and prices 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.

Belgrade in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelgradePalermo
Official languageSerbianItalian
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m14 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradePalermo
City population1,197,714630,167
People per km²3,3273,924
Museums within 10 km6542
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.