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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Palermo or Winter Park, Colorado?

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

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’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, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Palermo leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Palermo leads by 57 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Palermo leads by 74 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Palermo leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Palermo leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Palermo leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Palermo leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Palermo leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Palermo leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors 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

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado 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). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m2,759 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoWinter Park, Colorado
City population630,1671,033
People per km²3,92424
Museums within 10 km420
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.