Rome to Palermo by train or flight

Every option, compared

Door-to-door times (flights include the time at the airports). Fares are typical ranges from the cheapest seat to the premium one.

• Flight, ITA Airways / Ryanair to Palermo: About 1 h 10 in the air; the airport train or Prestia e Comandè bus into Palermo takes about an hour.
• Train, Intercity Notte sleeper (crosses the Strait of Messina by train ferry): Leaves Rome in the evening and arrives in Palermo in the morning; budget is a reclining seat or couchette, luxury a private sleeper compartment.

Booking links open the route on the country's transport booking site for trains, buses, boats and transfers, and a flight search for flights, dated about two weeks out; change the date there.

What it costs your group, one way

Fares × people; a private car is priced per car, one car per four people.

Once you’re in Palermo

• Best time: April – June, September – October
• Typical stay: 3 days
• November: Mixed month: November is outside the recommended season (April – June, September – October). Nothing in our data flags November as a problem, but it isn't the season the place is best in.

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