VacationSelector

Palermo or Seville?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Palermo
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Seville
54
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.

PalermoSeville
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
PalermoSeville
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km132
Coast distance1 km65 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seville leads by 16 points.16
PalermoSeville
Score5066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8071,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1322
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 6 points.6
PalermoSeville
Score5056
Museums within 10 km3250
Museums within 2 km of centre2640
Share of museums within 2 km %8180
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Seville leads by 9 points.9
PalermoSeville
Score5362
Drinking venues within 4 km7991,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6462
Nightclubs within 4 km1657
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 1 points.1
PalermoSeville
Score3637
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 24 points.24
PalermoSeville
Score4165
Tourist attractions within 2 km1647
Park area within 2 km63 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 2 points.2
PalermoSeville
Score5755
Notable places within 2 km10492
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 3 points.3
PalermoSeville
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 2 points.2
PalermoSeville
Score7775
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm1 mm to 78 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
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Seville
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
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoSeville
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€137-175
2 stops
SVQ · 9 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BilbaoBIO
2 h 25 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 9 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

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 centre103 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3352
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.