VacationSelector

Palermo or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

PalermoWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.21
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score6788
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km1310
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 13 points.13
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score5037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre807262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1314
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 33 points.33
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score5017
Museums within 10 km325
Museums within 2 km of centre263
Share of museums within 2 km %8160
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 33 points.33
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score5320
Drinking venues within 4 km799132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre51590
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6468
Nightclubs within 4 km1610
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 33 points.33
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score3669
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4545
Park area within 2 km63 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 20 points.20
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score4121
Tourist attractions within 2 km163
Park area within 2 km63 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 45 points.45
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score5712
Notable places within 2 km1048
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 2 points.2
PalermoWest Palm Beach
Score7775
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoWest Palm Beach
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasurePalermoWest Palm Beach
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m6 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoWest Palm Beach
City population630,167117,415
People per km²3,924786
Museums within 10 km424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3318
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.