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The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Fort Lauderdale’s own page.

Choose Palermo for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • 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. Fort Lauderdale 88, Palermo 77: Fort Lauderdale leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Fort Lauderdale 47, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Lauderdale 28, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale 52, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Lauderdale 62, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Fort Lauderdale 58, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Fort Lauderdale 66, Palermo 44: Fort Lauderdale leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Fort Lauderdale 32, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Lauderdale 52, Palermo 44: Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Fort Lauderdale 32, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Lauderdale 42, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Lauderdale 40, Palermo 30: Fort Lauderdale leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Lauderdale and Palermo.

Your match

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

Fort Lauderdale
50match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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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Where the figures come from

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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort LauderdalePalermo
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m14 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdalePalermo
City population182,760630,167
People per km²1,8293,924
Museums within 10 km642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.