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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Palermo or Tokyo?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Palermo leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Tokyo 68: Palermo leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 51 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Tokyo 48: Palermo leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 48 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Palermo
62match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoTokyo
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation14 m6 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoTokyo
City population630,16714,264,798
People per km²3,9246,501
Museums within 10 km42192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.