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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Deer Valley 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 Deer Valley for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Deer Valley 10, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Palermo 72: Deer Valley leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Palermo 44: Deer Valley leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley and Palermo are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Palermo 30: Deer Valley leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Palermo.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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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Deer ValleyPalermo

Where the figures come from

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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 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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyPalermo
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)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
Elevation2,474 m14 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyPalermo
City population-630,167
People per km²-3,924
Museums within 10 km042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.