VacationSelector

Glasgow or Palermo?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
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.

GlasgowPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 31 points.31
GlasgowPalermo
Score3667
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km313
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
GlasgowPalermo
Score6350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2913
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowPalermo
Score4550
Museums within 10 km3232
Museums within 2 km of centre1326
Share of museums within 2 km %4181
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 10 points.10
GlasgowPalermo
Score6353
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6164
Nightclubs within 4 km7316
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 2 points.2
GlasgowPalermo
Score3836
Protected land share 50 km %164
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9145
Park area within 2 km56 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow and Palermo are level on 41.
GlasgowPalermo
Score4141
Tourist attractions within 2 km1316
Park area within 2 km56 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 4 points.4
GlasgowPalermo
Score5357
Notable places within 2 km80104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
GlasgowPalermo
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 34 points.34
GlasgowPalermo
Score4377
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
VeronaVRN, VBS
2 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
PisaPSA
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€47-105
PMO · 25 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BolognaBLQ
2 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureGlasgowPalermo
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m14 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowPalermo
City population626,410630,167
People per km²1903,924
Museums within 10 km2942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5433
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. 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. 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.