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Palm Springs
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Palm Springs or Turin?

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

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

Choose Turin for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Turin leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Turin 81: Turin leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Turin 78: Turin leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Turin 50: Turin leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Turin 80: Turin leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Turin 84: Turin leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Turin 57: Turin leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Turin 68: Turin leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Turin 58: Turin leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Turin 58: Turin leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Turin 65: Turin leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Turin 40: Palm Springs leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Turin.

Your match

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

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness with your weighting.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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
14 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
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.

Turin 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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsTurin
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation146 m239 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsTurin
City population44,575841,600
People per km²1816,474
Museums within 10 km372
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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. 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.