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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 Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Alta, Utah by Sumanch, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Alta, Utah or Dublin?

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 Dublin for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Dublin leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Alta, Utah 15, Dublin 50: Dublin leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Alta, Utah 5, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Alta, Utah 4, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alta, Utah 90, Dublin 70: Alta, Utah leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Alta, Utah 40, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Alta, Utah 30, Dublin 57: Dublin leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Alta, Utah 35, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Alta, Utah 4, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Alta, Utah 15, Dublin 20: Dublin leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alta, Utah 3, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alta, Utah 35, Dublin 25: Alta, Utah leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alta, Utah and Dublin.

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.

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Alta, UtahDublin

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.

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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlta, UtahDublin
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 m20 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)37 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlta, UtahDublin
City population228592,713
People per km²195,154
Museums within 10 km040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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.