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The Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane
BrisbaneThe Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Brisbane by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Brisbane 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 Brisbane for

  • families
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Palermo for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • 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. Brisbane 55, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Brisbane 60, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Brisbane 42, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Brisbane 55, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brisbane 74, Palermo 72: Brisbane leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Brisbane 50, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Brisbane 78, Palermo 44: Brisbane leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Brisbane 62, Palermo 50: Brisbane leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Brisbane 45, Palermo 44: Brisbane leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Brisbane 33, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brisbane 55, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brisbane 40, Palermo 30: Brisbane leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brisbane and Palermo.

Your match

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

Brisbane
54match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Brisbane in July

22 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
11 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. Brisbane: 1991-2020 normals, Brisbane (4.5 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrisbanePalermo
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation0 m14 m
Main airportBrisbane International Airport (BNE)13 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrisbanePalermo
City population2,706,966630,167
People per km²1713,924
Museums within 10 km1642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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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.