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The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Athens or Sedona?

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 Athens for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Athens’s own page.

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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. Athens 70, Sedona 16: Athens leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Athens 78, Sedona 33: Athens leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Athens 88, Sedona 20: Athens leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Athens 80, Sedona 8: Athens leads by 72 points.
Nature & outdoors. Athens 64, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Athens 85, Sedona 55: Athens leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Athens 58, Sedona 42: Athens leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Athens 66, Sedona 22: Athens leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Athens 55, Sedona 34: Athens leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Athens 56, Sedona 18: Athens leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Athens 64, Sedona 13: Athens leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Athens 42, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Athens and Sedona.

Your match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Athens in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

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

Sedona 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAthensSedona
Official languageGreek-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m1,319 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensSedona
City population643,4529,684
People per km²16,499195
Museums within 10 km880
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.