VacationSelector

Munich 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, 2 points apart

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Palermo
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MunichPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
MunichPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km613
Coast distance579 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 23 points.23
MunichPalermo
Score7350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3513
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 11 points.11
MunichPalermo
Score6150
Museums within 10 km7432
Museums within 2 km of centre4826
Share of museums within 2 km %6581
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Munich leads by 14 points.14
MunichPalermo
Score6753
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5764
Nightclubs within 4 km10316
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 12 points.12
MunichPalermo
Score4836
Protected land share 50 km %174
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km199 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 38 points.38
MunichPalermo
Score7941
Tourist attractions within 2 km8016
Park area within 2 km199 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 11 points.11
MunichPalermo
Score6857
Notable places within 2 km196104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 8 points.8
MunichPalermo
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 21 points.21
MunichPalermo
Score5677
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
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. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 29 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMunichPalermo
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation519 m14 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichPalermo
City population1,510,378630,167
People per km²4,8613,924
Museums within 10 km7442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8933
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.