VacationSelector

Bruges or Palermo?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
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.

BrugesPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 59 points.59
BrugesPalermo
Score867
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance14 km1 km
Water distance14 km1 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 7 points.7
BrugesPalermo
Score5750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3213
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 7 points.7
BrugesPalermo
Score5750
Museums within 10 km3032
Museums within 2 km of centre2426
Share of museums within 2 km %8081
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 19 points.19
BrugesPalermo
Score3453
Drinking venues within 4 km292799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8064
Nightclubs within 4 km816
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 10 points.10
BrugesPalermo
Score2636
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6545
Park area within 2 km59 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 19 points.19
BrugesPalermo
Score6041
Tourist attractions within 2 km5216
Park area within 2 km59 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
BrugesPalermo
Score4057
Notable places within 2 km40104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 8 points.8
BrugesPalermo
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 21 points.21
BrugesPalermo
Score5677
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months17
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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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
2 h 0 m
€114-166
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBrugesPalermo
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m14 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesPalermo
City population118,509630,167
People per km²8403,924
Museums within 10 km3842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5133
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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.