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Palm Springs
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palm Springs or Thessaloniki?

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 Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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. Palm Springs 7, Thessaloniki 55: Thessaloniki leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Thessaloniki 66: Palm Springs leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Thessaloniki 33: Palm Springs leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
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

Palm Springs 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. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsThessaloniki
Official language-Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation146 m6 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsThessaloniki
City population44,575309,617
People per km²18116,042
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.