VacationSelector

Palermo or Tallinn?

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 year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage 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.

PalermoTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 13 points.13
PalermoTallinn
Score6754
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km1318
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 12 points.12
PalermoTallinn
Score5062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre807481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1339
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 12 points.12
PalermoTallinn
Score5062
Museums within 10 km3271
Museums within 2 km of centre2657
Share of museums within 2 km %8180
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
PalermoTallinn
Score5346
Drinking venues within 4 km799462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6480
Nightclubs within 4 km1643
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 5 points.5
PalermoTallinn
Score3631
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4553
Park area within 2 km63 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
PalermoTallinn
Score4151
Tourist attractions within 2 km1620
Park area within 2 km63 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 5 points.5
PalermoTallinn
Score5762
Notable places within 2 km104135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
PalermoTallinn
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155€143
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 29 points.29
PalermoTallinn
Score7748
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months74
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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tallinn
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
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoTallinn
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 30 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RigaRIX
3 h 20 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 20 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 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

MeasurePalermoTallinn
Official languageItalianEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m28 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoTallinn
City population630,167457,572
People per km²3,9242,871
Museums within 10 km4215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3363
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. 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.