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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Palermo or Paris?

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 Palermo for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Paris for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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. Palermo 77, Paris 9: Palermo leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Paris 96: Paris leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Paris 97: Paris leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Paris 80: Paris leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Paris 52: Palermo leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Paris 92: Paris leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Paris 79: Paris leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Paris 88: Paris leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Paris 98: Paris leads by 54 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Paris 25: Palermo leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Paris 88: Paris leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Paris 40: Paris leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Paris.

Your match

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

Palermo
62match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoParis
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m27 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoParis
City population630,1672,103,778
People per km²3,92419,960
Museums within 10 km42251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.