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The Gateway of India under a blue sky, Mumbai
MumbaiThe Gateway of India under a blue sky
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Mumbai by Shubam Bhasin, Pexels License; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Mumbai 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 Mumbai for

  • shopping
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Mumbai 18, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Mumbai 82, Palermo 81: Mumbai leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Mumbai 70, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Mumbai 52, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mumbai 55, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Mumbai 48, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Mumbai 35, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Mumbai 38, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Mumbai 66, Palermo 44: Mumbai leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Mumbai 72, Palermo 63: Mumbai leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mumbai 55, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mumbai 24, Palermo 30: Palermo leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mumbai and Palermo.

Your match

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

Mumbai
51match

Wins on shopping and prices with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Mumbai in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
860 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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

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. Mumbai: 1991-2020 normals, Bombay / Santacruz (5.4 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMumbaiPalermo
Official languageHindi, EnglishItalian
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation14 m14 m
Main airportChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM)2 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMumbaiPalermo
City population15,414,288630,167
People per km²25,5633,924
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.