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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Palermo or Telluride?

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
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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, Telluride 5: Palermo leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Telluride 38: Palermo leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Telluride 20: Palermo leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Telluride 20: Palermo leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Telluride 30: Palermo leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Telluride 66: Telluride leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Telluride 25: Palermo leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Telluride 7: Palermo leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Telluride 35: Palermo leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Telluride.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Telluride
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PalermoTelluride

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.

Telluride 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.

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). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoTelluride
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m2,667 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoTelluride
City population630,1672,607
People per km²3,9241,372
Museums within 10 km420
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.