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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
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Alta, Utah by Sumanch, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Alta, Utah or Cork?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Cork for

  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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, Cork 25: Cork leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Alta, Utah 15, Cork 58: Cork leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Alta, Utah 5, Cork 40: Cork leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Alta, Utah 4, Cork 40: Cork leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alta, Utah 90, Cork 62: Alta, Utah leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Alta, Utah 40, Cork 68: Cork leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Alta, Utah 30, Cork 50: Cork leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Alta, Utah 35, Cork 58: Cork leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Alta, Utah 4, Cork 40: Cork leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Alta, Utah 15, Cork 33: Cork leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alta, Utah 3, Cork 45: Cork leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alta, Utah 35, Cork 22: Alta, Utah leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alta, Utah and Cork.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Cork
Best match
45match

Wins on food and drink and live music and the arts 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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.

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlta, UtahCork
Official language-English, Irish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,610 m0 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)37 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlta, UtahCork
City population228222,333
People per km²195,961
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.