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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 cathedral from Piazza del Duomo, Milan
MilanThe cathedral from Piazza del Duomo

Photos: Alta, Utah by Sumanch, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Milan by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alta, Utah or Milan?

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 Milan for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Milan’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, Milan 20: Milan leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Alta, Utah 15, Milan 78: Milan leads by 63 points.
Culture & sights. Alta, Utah 5, Milan 78: Milan leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Alta, Utah 4, Milan 66: Milan leads by 62 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alta, Utah 90, Milan 65: Alta, Utah leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Alta, Utah 40, Milan 91: Milan leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Alta, Utah 30, Milan 55: Milan leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Alta, Utah 35, Milan 79: Milan leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Alta, Utah 4, Milan 92: Milan leads by 88 points.
Affordability. Alta, Utah 15, Milan 33: Milan leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alta, Utah 3, Milan 82: Milan leads by 79 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alta, Utah 35, Milan 42: Milan leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alta, Utah and Milan.

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.

Milan
Best match
65match

Wins on shopping 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
15 hdaylight a day

Milan in July

30 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 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.

Milan 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.

Milan's sunshine is measured 41 km from the centre, at Novara / Cameri.

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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Milano / Linate (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlta, UtahMilan
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,610 m138 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)37 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlta, UtahMilan
City population2281,354,196
People per km²197,453
Museums within 10 km088
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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. 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.