VacationSelector

Palermo or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Palermo
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

PalermoVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
PalermoVancouver
Score6760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km13109
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 24 points.24
PalermoVancouver
Score5074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8071,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1335
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
PalermoVancouver
Score5034
Museums within 10 km3227
Museums within 2 km of centre2615
Share of museums within 2 km %8156
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 4 points.4
PalermoVancouver
Score5357
Drinking venues within 4 km799848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6471
Nightclubs within 4 km1644
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 41 points.41
PalermoVancouver
Score3677
Protected land share 50 km %419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4560
Park area within 2 km63 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
PalermoVancouver
Score4153
Tourist attractions within 2 km1615
Park area within 2 km63 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 9 points.9
PalermoVancouver
Score5748
Notable places within 2 km10463
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
PalermoVancouver
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 24 points.24
PalermoVancouver
Score7753
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasurePalermoVancouver
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m2 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoVancouver
City population630,167662,248
People per km²3,9245,759
Museums within 10 km4226
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3385
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.