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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Palermo or Tel Aviv?

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

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Tel Aviv 80: Palermo leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Tel Aviv 57: Palermo leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Tel Aviv 52: Palermo leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Palermo and Tel Aviv are level on 84.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Tel Aviv 14: Palermo leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Tel Aviv 35: Tel Aviv leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Palermo
62match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
62match

Wins on nightlife and families 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

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °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). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoTel Aviv
Official languageItalianHebrew
CurrencyEuro (EUR)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation14 m5 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoTel Aviv
City population630,167467,875
People per km²3,9248,998
Museums within 10 km4298
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months7 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. 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.