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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

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

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

Choose Sedona for

  • 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. Budapest 25, Sedona 16: Budapest leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Sedona 33: Budapest leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Sedona 20: Budapest leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Sedona 8: Budapest leads by 70 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Sedona 55: Budapest leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Sedona 42: Budapest leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Sedona 22: Budapest leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Sedona 34: Budapest leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Sedona 18: Budapest leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Sedona 13: Budapest leads by 63 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Sedona 82: Budapest leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Sedona.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

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

Sedona
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

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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestSedona
Official languageHungarian-
CurrencyForint (HUF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation117 m1,319 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestSedona
City population1,675,7779,684
People per km²3,191195
Museums within 10 km810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.