VacationSelector

Cadiz or Palermo?

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

Your match

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CadizPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 3 points.3
CadizPalermo
Score7067
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km2913
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
CadizPalermo
Score4450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1813
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
CadizPalermo
Score3650
Museums within 10 km2332
Museums within 2 km of centre1626
Share of museums within 2 km %7081
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 23 points.23
CadizPalermo
Score3053
Drinking venues within 4 km241799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7364
Nightclubs within 4 km616
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 10 points.10
CadizPalermo
Score2636
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4545
Park area within 2 km24 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 13 points.13
CadizPalermo
Score5441
Tourist attractions within 2 km8016
Park area within 2 km24 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 26 points.26
CadizPalermo
Score3157
Notable places within 2 km23104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 3 points.3
CadizPalermo
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 6 points.6
CadizPalermo
Score8377
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months57
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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
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. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BolognaBLQ
2 h 35 m
€137-175
2 stops
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
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

MeasureCadizPalermo
Official languageSpanishItalian
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
Elevation11 m14 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizPalermo
City population109,950630,167
People per km²9,0873,924
Museums within 10 km1142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2833
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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.