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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 red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji

Photos: Alta, Utah by Sumanch, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alta, Utah or Fukuoka?

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

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

Choose Fukuoka for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Fukuoka’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, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Alta, Utah 15, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 67 points.
Culture & sights. Alta, Utah 5, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Alta, Utah 4, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alta, Utah 90, Fukuoka 62: Alta, Utah leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Alta, Utah 40, Fukuoka 84: Fukuoka leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Alta, Utah 30, Fukuoka 78: Fukuoka leads by 48 points.
Getting around. Alta, Utah 35, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Alta, Utah 4, Fukuoka 65: Fukuoka leads by 61 points.
Affordability. Alta, Utah 15, Fukuoka 58: Fukuoka leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alta, Utah 3, Fukuoka 45: Fukuoka leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alta, Utah 35, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alta, Utah and Fukuoka.

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 with your weighting.

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on food and drink and shopping 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

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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.

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. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlta, UtahFukuoka
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,610 m8 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)37 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlta, UtahFukuoka
City population2281,603,043
People per km²194,715
Museums within 10 km023
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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. 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.