VacationSelector

Palermo or Warsaw?

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.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families 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.

PalermoWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
PalermoWarsaw
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km1326
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 22 points.22
PalermoWarsaw
Score5072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8071,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1334
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
PalermoWarsaw
Score5063
Museums within 10 km32107
Museums within 2 km of centre2660
Share of museums within 2 km %8156
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 9 points.9
PalermoWarsaw
Score5362
Drinking venues within 4 km7991,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6464
Nightclubs within 4 km16104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
PalermoWarsaw
Score3655
Protected land share 50 km %427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 29 points.29
PalermoWarsaw
Score4170
Tourist attractions within 2 km1642
Park area within 2 km63 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
PalermoWarsaw
Score5776
Notable places within 2 km104299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 11 points.11
PalermoWarsaw
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155€133
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 18 points.18
PalermoWarsaw
Score7759
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months76
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoWarsaw
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WMI · 35 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasurePalermoWarsaw
Official languageItalianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m118 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoWarsaw
City population630,1671,862,402
People per km²3,9243,601
Museums within 10 km42117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3376
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.