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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Palermo or Savannah?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Savannah for

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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, Savannah 55: Palermo leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Savannah 58: Palermo leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Savannah 68: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Savannah 52: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Savannah 48: Palermo leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Savannah 60: Palermo leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Savannah 50: Savannah leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Savannah 42: Palermo leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Savannah 35: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Savannah 40: Palermo leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Savannah.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Savannah
51match

Wins on wellness and getting around 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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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.

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). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoSavannah
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 m15 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSavannah
City population630,167147,780
People per km²3,924524
Museums within 10 km4219
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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.