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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palermo or Rehoboth Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • families
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach 70: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Rehoboth Beach 44: Palermo leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Rehoboth Beach 14: Palermo leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Rehoboth Beach 40: Palermo leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Rehoboth Beach 50: Palermo leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Rehoboth Beach 50: Palermo leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Palermo and Rehoboth Beach are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Rehoboth Beach 32: Palermo leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Rehoboth Beach 28: Palermo leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on families and wellness 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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °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.

Rehoboth Beach 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.

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). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoRehoboth Beach
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m5 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoRehoboth Beach
City population630,1671,108
People per km²3,924258
Museums within 10 km422
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.