VacationSelector

Palermo or Singapore?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming 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.

PalermoSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 33 points.33
PalermoSingapore
Score67100
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km1342
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 37 points.37
PalermoSingapore
Score5087
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8074,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1331
Museums & heritage. Palermo and Singapore are level on 50.
PalermoSingapore
Score5050
Museums within 10 km3257
Museums within 2 km of centre2626
Share of museums within 2 km %8146
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 21 points.21
PalermoSingapore
Score5374
Drinking venues within 4 km7991,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5151,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6471
Nightclubs within 4 km1677
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 2 points.2
PalermoSingapore
Score3634
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4553
Park area within 2 km63 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
PalermoSingapore
Score4168
Tourist attractions within 2 km1628
Park area within 2 km63 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 9 points.9
PalermoSingapore
Score5766
Notable places within 2 km104172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 2 points.2
PalermoSingapore
Score6870
Price level global64.962
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 15 points.15
PalermoSingapore
Score7762
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months70
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
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoSingapore
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 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

MeasurePalermoSingapore
Official languageItalianEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation14 m21 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSingapore
City population630,1675,866,139
People per km²3,9248,158
Museums within 10 km4240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre33107
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.