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The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Berlin 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 Berlin for

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

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

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Berlin 38, Sedona 16: Berlin leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Berlin 66, Sedona 33: Berlin leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Berlin 86, Sedona 20: Berlin leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Berlin 98, Sedona 8: Berlin leads by 90 points.
Nature & outdoors. Berlin 50, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Berlin 66, Sedona 55: Berlin leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Berlin 76, Sedona 42: Berlin leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Berlin 82, Sedona 22: Berlin leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Berlin 68, Sedona 34: Berlin leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Berlin 48, Sedona 18: Berlin leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Berlin 90, Sedona 13: Berlin leads by 77 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Berlin 55, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Berlin and Sedona.

Your match

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

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBerlinSedona
Official languageGerman-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation34 m1,319 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinSedona
City population3,700,5779,684
People per km²4,153195
Museums within 10 km1570
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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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. 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.