VacationSelector

Dublin or Palermo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Dublin
55
match

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

Palermo
55
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

DublinPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 18 points.18
DublinPalermo
Score4967
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1113
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 20 points.20
DublinPalermo
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3713
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 5 points.5
DublinPalermo
Score5550
Museums within 10 km4732
Museums within 2 km of centre3726
Share of museums within 2 km %7981
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinPalermo
Score6453
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7564
Nightclubs within 4 km4016
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 10 points.10
DublinPalermo
Score2636
Protected land share 50 km %34
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6245
Park area within 2 km43 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 13 points.13
DublinPalermo
Score5441
Tourist attractions within 2 km4116
Park area within 2 km43 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 5 points.5
DublinPalermo
Score6257
Notable places within 2 km141104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 11 points.11
DublinPalermo
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 23 points.23
DublinPalermo
Score5477
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€53-95
DUB · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
3 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
BolognaBLQ
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
9 h 5 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

MeasureDublinPalermo
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m14 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinPalermo
City population592,713630,167
People per km²5,1543,924
Museums within 10 km4042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7433
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.