VacationSelector

Interlaken or Palermo?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

InterlakenPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
InterlakenPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1213
Coast distance713 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 21 points.21
InterlakenPalermo
Score2950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1713
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 27 points.27
InterlakenPalermo
Score2350
Museums within 10 km532
Museums within 2 km of centre226
Share of museums within 2 km %4081
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 49 points.49
InterlakenPalermo
Score453
Drinking venues within 4 km42799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9064
Nightclubs within 4 km316
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 9 points.9
InterlakenPalermo
Score2736
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km5 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 27 points.27
InterlakenPalermo
Score1441
Tourist attractions within 2 km1116
Park area within 2 km5 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 35 points.35
InterlakenPalermo
Score2257
Notable places within 2 km14104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 33 points.33
InterlakenPalermo
Score3568
Price level global110.564.9
Daily budget€248€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 20 points.20
InterlakenPalermo
Score5777
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months37
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 30 m
€135-181
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 0 m
€114-166
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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 2026-09 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

MeasureInterlakenPalermo
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshItalian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m14 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenPalermo
City population6,123630,167
People per km²1,4243,924
Museums within 10 km342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2233
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.