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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Snowbird by VeggieGarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palermo or Snowbird?

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

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Snowbird for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Snowbird’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, Snowbird 5: Palermo leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Snowbird 20: Palermo leads by 61 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Snowbird 5: Palermo leads by 75 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Snowbird 9: Palermo leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Snowbird 92: Snowbird leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Snowbird 47: Palermo leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Snowbird 42: Palermo leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Snowbird 40: Palermo leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Snowbird 8: Palermo leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Snowbird 15: Palermo leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Snowbird 8: Palermo leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Snowbird 40: Snowbird leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Snowbird.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

Snowbird
28match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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.

Snowbird has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePalermoSnowbird
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m2,479 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSnowbird
City population630,167-
People per km²3,924-
Museums within 10 km420
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.