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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Palermo or Yogyakarta?

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

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Palermo leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Yogyakarta 62: Palermo leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Yogyakarta 68: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Yogyakarta 32: Palermo leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo and Yogyakarta are level on 72.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Yogyakarta 78: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Yogyakarta 40: Palermo leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Yogyakarta 35: Palermo leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Yogyakarta 58: Palermo leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 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.

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePalermoYogyakarta
Official languageItalianIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m113 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoYogyakarta
City population630,167422,732
People per km²3,92413,007
Museums within 10 km4238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.