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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Barcelona or Salt Lake City?

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 Barcelona for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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. Barcelona 75, Salt Lake City 12: Barcelona leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Salt Lake City 40: Barcelona leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Salt Lake City 42: Barcelona leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Salt Lake City 30: Barcelona leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona 72, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Barcelona 80, Salt Lake City 34: Barcelona leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Salt Lake City 72: Barcelona leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Salt Lake City 42: Barcelona leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Salt Lake City 36: Barcelona leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Salt Lake City 40: Barcelona leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Salt Lake City 55: Barcelona leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona and Salt Lake City are level on 38.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on 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.

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BarcelonaSalt Lake City

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaSalt Lake City
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation9 m1,288 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaSalt Lake City
City population1,731,649199,723
People per km²17,094690
Museums within 10 km9512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.