VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Palermo?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdalePalermo
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 17 points.17
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score8467
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km713
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 5 points.5
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score4550
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1813
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 30 points.30
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score2050
Museums within 10 km1432
Museums within 2 km of centre626
Share of museums within 2 km %4381
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 19 points.19
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score3453
Drinking venues within 4 km259799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5664
Nightclubs within 4 km1816
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 45 points.45
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score8136
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5145
Park area within 2 km45 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 22 points.22
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score1941
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km45 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 57 points.57
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score057
Notable places within 2 km2104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 1 points.1
Fort LauderdalePalermo
Score7677
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdalePalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
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

MeasureFort LauderdalePalermo
Official languageItalian
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 centre125 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre2533
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). 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. 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.