VacationSelector

Palermo or Stockholm?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

PalermoStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
PalermoStockholm
Score6760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km1373
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 26 points.26
PalermoStockholm
Score5076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8071,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1336
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
PalermoStockholm
Score5069
Museums within 10 km3274
Museums within 2 km of centre2647
Share of museums within 2 km %8164
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 11 points.11
PalermoStockholm
Score5364
Drinking venues within 4 km7991,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6463
Nightclubs within 4 km16106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
PalermoStockholm
Score3641
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4577
Park area within 2 km63 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 16 points.16
PalermoStockholm
Score4157
Tourist attractions within 2 km1623
Park area within 2 km63 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
PalermoStockholm
Score5779
Notable places within 2 km104357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 11 points.11
PalermoStockholm
Score6857
Price level global64.980.3
Daily budget€155€169
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 24 points.24
PalermoStockholm
Score7753
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm27 mm to 66 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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoStockholm
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
2 h 40 m
€71-90
ARN · 36 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
3 h 5 m
€99-123
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 35 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

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 centre103 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3381
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.