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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Palermo or Stockholm?

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
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Palermo leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Stockholm 64: Palermo leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Stockholm 77: Palermo leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Stockholm 57: Palermo leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo and Stockholm are level on 72.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Stockholm 68: Palermo leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Stockholm 30: Palermo leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Stockholm.

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 prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
64match

Wins on families and getting around 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

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). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoStockholm
Official languageItalianSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m22 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoStockholm
City population630,167984,748
People per km²3,9245,260
Museums within 10 km42266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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