VacationSelector

Catania or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

CataniaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 30 points.30
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score5888
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km510
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Catania leads by 12 points.12
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score4937
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1414
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 42 points.42
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score5917
Museums within 10 km345
Museums within 2 km of centre273
Share of museums within 2 km %7960
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Catania leads by 27 points.27
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score4720
Drinking venues within 4 km537132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre40390
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7568
Nightclubs within 4 km1810
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 38 points.38
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score3169
Protected land share 50 km %1015
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6145
Park area within 2 km11 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 15 points.15
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score3621
Tourist attractions within 2 km253
Park area within 2 km11 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 27 points.27
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score3912
Notable places within 2 km378
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 2 points.2
CataniaWest Palm Beach
Score7775
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months50
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaWest Palm Beach
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 35 m
€133-162
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€195-231
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 0 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 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

MeasureCataniaWest Palm Beach
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaWest Palm Beach
City population311,584117,415
People per km²1,704786
Museums within 10 km254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3018
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.