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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bologna 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 Bologna for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Bologna 30, Salt Lake City 12: Bologna leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Salt Lake City 40: Bologna leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Salt Lake City 42: Bologna leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Salt Lake City 30: Bologna leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Salt Lake City 34: Bologna leads by 61 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Salt Lake City 42: Bologna leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Salt Lake City 36: Bologna leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Salt Lake City 40: Bologna leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Salt Lake City 55: Bologna leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Salt Lake City 38: Bologna leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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
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

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaSalt Lake City
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m1,288 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaSalt Lake City
City population387,971199,723
People per km²2,754690
Museums within 10 km6812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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.