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Skiers at the Albion base of the ski area, Alta, Utah
Alta, UtahSkiers at the Albion base of the ski area
The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel

Photos: Alta, Utah by Sumanch, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Alta, Utah or Amman?

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 Alta, Utah for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Alta, Utah’s own page.

Choose Amman for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’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. Alta, Utah 3, Amman 22: Amman leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Alta, Utah 15, Amman 62: Amman leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Alta, Utah 5, Amman 54: Amman leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Alta, Utah 4, Amman 32: Amman leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alta, Utah 90, Amman 45: Alta, Utah leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Alta, Utah 40, Amman 80: Amman leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Alta, Utah 30, Amman 38: Amman leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alta, Utah 35, Amman 30: Alta, Utah leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Alta, Utah 4, Amman 42: Amman leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Alta, Utah 15, Amman 58: Amman leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alta, Utah 3, Amman 27: Amman leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alta, Utah 35, Amman 55: Amman leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alta, Utah and Amman.

Your match

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

Alta, Utah
23match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Amman
Best match
45match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Alta, Utah in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Alta, Utah 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.

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alta, Utah: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlta, UtahAmman
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,610 m776 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)37 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlta, UtahAmman
City population2284,007,526
People per km²192,385
Museums within 10 km08
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.