VacationSelector

Palermo or Prague?

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

Your match

Palermo
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

PalermoPrague
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
PalermoPrague
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km137
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 25 points.25
PalermoPrague
Score5075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8071,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1329
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 22 points.22
PalermoPrague
Score5072
Museums within 10 km32138
Museums within 2 km of centre26100
Share of museums within 2 km %8172
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 24 points.24
PalermoPrague
Score5377
Drinking venues within 4 km7992,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5151,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6465
Nightclubs within 4 km16123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 9 points.9
PalermoPrague
Score3645
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 34 points.34
PalermoPrague
Score4175
Tourist attractions within 2 km1654
Park area within 2 km63 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 19 points.19
PalermoPrague
Score5776
Notable places within 2 km104310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 7 points.7
PalermoPrague
Score6875
Price level global64.955.2
Daily budget€155€107
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
PalermoPrague
Score7761
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months77
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoPrague
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€107-154
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasurePalermoPrague
Official languageItalianCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m235 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoPrague
City population630,1671,397,880
People per km²3,9242,817
Museums within 10 km4288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3389
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.