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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Palermo or Valencia?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valencia for

  • families
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Valencia 74: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Valencia 68: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Valencia 60: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Valencia 70: Palermo leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Valencia 57: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Valencia 55: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Valencia.

Your match

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

Palermo
62match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on families 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoValencia
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m15 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoValencia
City population630,167840,792
People per km²3,9246,242
Museums within 10 km4245
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.