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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Budapest or Deer Valley?

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 Budapest for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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. Budapest 25, Deer Valley 10: Budapest leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Deer Valley 38: Budapest leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Deer Valley 15: Budapest leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Deer Valley 25: Budapest leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Deer Valley 38: Budapest leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Deer Valley 60: Budapest leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Deer Valley 50: Budapest leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Deer Valley 25: Budapest leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Deer Valley 4: Budapest leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Deer Valley 30: Budapest leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Deer Valley 52: Budapest leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Deer Valley.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

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.

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestDeer Valley
Official languageHungarian-
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m2,474 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestDeer Valley
City population1,675,777-
People per km²3,191-
Museums within 10 km810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.