VacationSelector

Palermo or Reykjavik?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

PalermoReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
PalermoReykjavik
Score6760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km1333
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 1 points.1
PalermoReykjavik
Score5049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre807261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1329
Museums & heritage. Palermo and Reykjavik are level on 50.
PalermoReykjavik
Score5050
Museums within 10 km3234
Museums within 2 km of centre2623
Share of museums within 2 km %8168
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 26 points.26
PalermoReykjavik
Score5327
Drinking venues within 4 km799192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6486
Nightclubs within 4 km1610
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 23 points.23
PalermoReykjavik
Score3659
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4556
Park area within 2 km63 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 1 points.1
PalermoReykjavik
Score4142
Tourist attractions within 2 km1621
Park area within 2 km63 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 9 points.9
PalermoReykjavik
Score5748
Notable places within 2 km10461
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 27 points.27
PalermoReykjavik
Score6841
Price level global64.9102.8
Daily budget€155€243
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 40 points.40
PalermoReykjavik
Score7737
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoReykjavik
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
VeronaVRN, VBS
1 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 35 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasurePalermoReykjavik
Official languageItalianIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m8 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoReykjavik
City population630,167138,772
People per km²3,924569
Museums within 10 km4223
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3342
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.