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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Palermo or Seville?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

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

Choose Seville for

  • getting around
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Palermo leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Seville 73: Palermo leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Seville 82: Seville leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Seville 62: Seville leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Seville 52: Palermo leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Seville 80: Palermo leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Seville 55: Seville leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Seville 72: Seville leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Seville 55: Seville leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Seville 58: Palermo leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Seville 68: Seville leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Seville 40: Seville leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Seville.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Palermo
62match

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

Seville
60match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoSeville
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m18 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSeville
City population630,167689,423
People per km²3,9244,896
Museums within 10 km4224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.