VacationSelector

Palermo or Rovaniemi?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PalermoRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
PalermoRovaniemi
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km1313
Coast distance1 km99 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 29 points.29
PalermoRovaniemi
Score5021
Restaurants within 2 km of centre80780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1314
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 30 points.30
PalermoRovaniemi
Score5020
Museums within 10 km328
Museums within 2 km of centre267
Share of museums within 2 km %8188
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 49 points.49
PalermoRovaniemi
Score534
Drinking venues within 4 km79952
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre51542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6481
Nightclubs within 4 km163
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 20 points.20
PalermoRovaniemi
Score3616
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 20 points.20
PalermoRovaniemi
Score4121
Tourist attractions within 2 km162
Park area within 2 km63 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 32 points.32
PalermoRovaniemi
Score5725
Notable places within 2 km10417
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
PalermoRovaniemi
Score6856
Price level global64.981.6
Daily budget€155€184
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 34 points.34
PalermoRovaniemi
Score7743
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months75
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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Rovaniemi
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). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoRovaniemi
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
3 h 20 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 30 m
€106-165
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 5 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 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

MeasurePalermoRovaniemi
Official languageItalianFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m88 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoRovaniemi
City population630,16765,329
People per km²3,9249
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3316
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.