VacationSelector

Palermo or Tokyo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Palermo
55
match

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

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

PalermoTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 46 points.46
PalermoTokyo
Score6721
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance1 km5 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 40 points.40
PalermoTokyo
Score5090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8076,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1325
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 16 points.16
PalermoTokyo
Score5066
Museums within 10 km32302
Museums within 2 km of centre2652
Share of museums within 2 km %8117
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 42 points.42
PalermoTokyo
Score5395
Drinking venues within 4 km7996,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5153,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6444
Nightclubs within 4 km1658
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 22 points.22
PalermoTokyo
Score3658
Protected land share 50 km %4—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4585
Park area within 2 km63 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 30 points.30
PalermoTokyo
Score4171
Tourist attractions within 2 km1640
Park area within 2 km63 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km09
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 3 points.3
PalermoTokyo
Score5760
Notable places within 2 km104121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 2 points.2
PalermoTokyo
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 13 points.13
PalermoTokyo
Score7764
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months70
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoTokyo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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

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 centre103 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 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 km42191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre33125
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.