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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Palermo or Salt Lake City?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Palermo leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Salt Lake City 40: Palermo leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Salt Lake City 42: Palermo leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Salt Lake City 30: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Salt Lake City 34: Palermo leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Salt Lake City 42: Palermo leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Salt Lake City 36: Palermo leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Salt Lake City 40: Palermo leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Salt Lake City 55: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Salt Lake City 38: Salt Lake City leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PalermoSalt Lake City

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.

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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoSalt Lake City
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m1,288 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSalt Lake City
City population630,167199,723
People per km²3,924690
Museums within 10 km4212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.