Mondello

Palermo's beach, in a bay between two mountains.

How we rated it: nothing lifts it and nothing sinks it. Photo: Pietro Columba · CC BY 2.0

The hang

Mondello is a semicircular bay about 1.5 km long between two promontories, Mount Pellegrino and Mount Gallo, 12 km from Palermo and separated from the city by the Parco della Favorita. We measured 1,421 metres of sand. The town around it has all the services: shops, restaurants, cafes and beach bars. Of the ten, its sea was the second warmest in 2025.

The real intel

Best months · warmest sea: July (28.0 °C), then August and September. Coolest: February (15.6 °C). One year of data, 2025.
Best months · emptiest: No crowd data.
Getting there: 12 km from Palermo, on the far side of the Parco della Favorita.
The catch nobody tells you: Nothing on record.

The year at Mondello

Warmest sea in July. Fewest wet days in June, July and August. Pick your fight.

Sea (°C)

16.1

15.6

16.1

19.9

24.9

27.3

26.5

20.7

17.2

Air (°C)

13.5

12.8

15.3

16.4

28.4

27.4

25.2

20.8

16.7

14.3

Sun (h/day)

7.5

8.6

9.3

10.5

11.6

13.8

13.7

12.6

11.5

9.4

8.2

7.5

Rain (days)

One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.

The neighbours

3 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies.

4.2 kmCapo Gallo Beach113 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
4.6 kmMamma Leone107 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
5.1 kmSpiaggia di Vergine Maria297 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.

Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.

The crowd

No crowd data.

The facts · we measured

Length: 1,421 m
Mean width: 38.2 m
Area: 54,214 m²
Warmest sea (2025): 28.0 °C in Jul
Coldest sea (2025): 15.6 °C in Feb
Sea by month, °C: Jan 16.1 · Feb 15.6 · Mar 16.1 · Apr 17.0 · May 19.9 · Jun 24.9 · Jul 28.0 · Aug 27.3 · Sep 26.5 · Oct 23.0 · Nov 20.7 · Dec 17.2