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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palermo or Udaipur?

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
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Udaipur’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, Udaipur 5: Palermo leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Udaipur 42: Palermo leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Udaipur 66: Palermo leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Udaipur 18: Palermo leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Udaipur 44: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Udaipur 68: Palermo leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Udaipur 32: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Udaipur 28: Palermo leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Udaipur 32: Palermo leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Udaipur.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Udaipur 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). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoUdaipur
Official languageItalianHindi, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation14 m578 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoUdaipur
City population630,167451,100
People per km²3,92412,192
Museums within 10 km423
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.