VacationSelector

Calgary or Palermo?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
CalgaryPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km413
Coast distance649 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryPalermo
Score6650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3613
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 41 points.41
CalgaryPalermo
Score950
Museums within 10 km832
Museums within 2 km of centre326
Share of museums within 2 km %3881
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryPalermo
Score4453
Drinking venues within 4 km465799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7464
Nightclubs within 4 km1916
Nature & day trips. Calgary and Palermo are level on 36.
CalgaryPalermo
Score3636
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km142 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Calgary and Palermo are level on 41.
CalgaryPalermo
Score4141
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km142 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 18 points.18
CalgaryPalermo
Score3957
Notable places within 2 km37104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryPalermo
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 20 points.20
CalgaryPalermo
Score5777
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months87
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 25 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCalgaryPalermo
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m14 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryPalermo
City population1,306,784630,167
People per km²1,5833,924
Museums within 10 km1342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6733
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.