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The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Guadalajara 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 Guadalajara for

  • shopping
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Guadalajara 5, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Guadalajara 75, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Guadalajara 62, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Guadalajara 68, Palermo 58: Guadalajara leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guadalajara 55, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Guadalajara 66, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Guadalajara 55, Palermo 44: Guadalajara leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Guadalajara 40, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Guadalajara 60, Palermo 44: Guadalajara leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Guadalajara 78, Palermo 63: Guadalajara leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guadalajara 60, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guadalajara 35, Palermo 30: Guadalajara leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guadalajara and Palermo.

Your match

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

Guadalajara
55match

Wins on shopping and prices 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.

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuadalajaraPalermo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,536 m14 m
Main airportGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuadalajaraPalermo
City population1,385,621630,167
People per km²9,5563,924
Museums within 10 km1742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.