VacationSelector

Miami or Palermo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Miami
56
match

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

Palermo
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

MiamiPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 28 points.28
MiamiPalermo
Score9567
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km2013
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 15 points.15
MiamiPalermo
Score6550
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2913
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 27 points.27
MiamiPalermo
Score2350
Museums within 10 km2832
Museums within 2 km of centre626
Share of museums within 2 km %2181
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 3 points.3
MiamiPalermo
Score5053
Drinking venues within 4 km538799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5364
Nightclubs within 4 km6316
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 36 points.36
MiamiPalermo
Score7236
Protected land share 50 km %164
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4845
Park area within 2 km50 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 3 points.3
MiamiPalermo
Score4441
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km50 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 15 points.15
MiamiPalermo
Score4257
Notable places within 2 km45104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
MiamiPalermo
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 3 points.3
MiamiPalermo
Score7477
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
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
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
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
Miami
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureMiamiPalermo
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
Elevation2 m14 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiPalermo
City population442,241630,167
People per km²3,0463,924
Museums within 10 km1742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3933
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.