VacationSelector

Palermo or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

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

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

PalermoQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
PalermoQuebec City
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km139
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 5 points.5
PalermoQuebec City
Score5055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre807387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1331
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 4 points.4
PalermoQuebec City
Score5046
Museums within 10 km3226
Museums within 2 km of centre2619
Share of museums within 2 km %8173
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 22 points.22
PalermoQuebec City
Score5331
Drinking venues within 4 km799250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6478
Nightclubs within 4 km168
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 7 points.7
PalermoQuebec City
Score3643
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 9 points.9
PalermoQuebec City
Score4150
Tourist attractions within 2 km1612
Park area within 2 km63 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
PalermoQuebec City
Score5743
Notable places within 2 km10447
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
PalermoQuebec City
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 31 points.31
PalermoQuebec City
Score7746
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months70
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
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoQuebec City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 40 m
€131-137
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
2 h 30 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 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

MeasurePalermoQuebec City
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m98 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoQuebec City
City population630,167574,482
People per km²3,9241,184
Museums within 10 km4216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3347
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.