VacationSelector

Berlin or Palermo?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

BerlinPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
BerlinPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1713
Coast distance142 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 20 points.20
BerlinPalermo
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3313
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 29 points.29
BerlinPalermo
Score7950
Museums within 10 km20032
Museums within 2 km of centre8126
Share of museums within 2 km %4181
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinPalermo
Score7653
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3464
Nightclubs within 4 km13516
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 13 points.13
BerlinPalermo
Score4936
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km141 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 35 points.35
BerlinPalermo
Score7641
Tourist attractions within 2 km5416
Park area within 2 km141 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 27 points.27
BerlinPalermo
Score8457
Notable places within 2 km486104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 8 points.8
BerlinPalermo
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
BerlinPalermo
Score6077
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€86-132
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€126-154
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 19 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

MeasureBerlinPalermo
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m14 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinPalermo
City population3,782,202630,167
People per km²4,2443,924
Museums within 10 km15842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8633
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.