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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

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

Palermo or Tangier?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Tangier for

  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Palermo leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Tangier 58: Palermo leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Tangier 57: Palermo leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Tangier 30: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Tangier 55: Palermo leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Tangier 72: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Tangier 35: Palermo leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Tangier 40: Palermo leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Tangier 42: Palermo leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Tangier 28: Palermo leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Tangier.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Tangier
49match

Wins on wellness and prices 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 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.

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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoTangier
Official languageItalianArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation14 m56 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoTangier
City population630,1671,275,428
People per km²3,9246,393
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.