VacationSelector

Palermo or Seoul?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Palermo
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

PalermoSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 52 points.52
PalermoSeoul
Score6715
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance1 km28 km
Water distance1 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 35 points.35
PalermoSeoul
Score5085
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8073,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1332
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 33 points.33
PalermoSeoul
Score5083
Museums within 10 km32203
Museums within 2 km of centre2690
Share of museums within 2 km %8144
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 27 points.27
PalermoSeoul
Score5380
Drinking venues within 4 km7993,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5151,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6450
Nightclubs within 4 km1629
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 4 points.4
PalermoSeoul
Score3632
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4595
Park area within 2 km63 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 38 points.38
PalermoSeoul
Score4179
Tourist attractions within 2 km1662
Park area within 2 km63 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 2 points.2
PalermoSeoul
Score5759
Notable places within 2 km104118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 4 points.4
PalermoSeoul
Score6872
Price level global64.959.4
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
PalermoSeoul
Score7761
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months74
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
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoSeoul
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 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

MeasurePalermoSeoul
Official languageItalianKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation14 m38 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSeoul
City population630,1679,668,465
People per km²3,92415,973
Museums within 10 km4280
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre33156
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 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. 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.