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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Cardiff or Park 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 Cardiff for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Park City for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Park 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. Cardiff 30, Park City 8: Cardiff leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Park City 40: Cardiff leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Park City 18: Cardiff leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Park City 25: Cardiff leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Park City 92: Park City leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Park City 40: Cardiff leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Park City 68: Park City leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Park City 60: Cardiff leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Park City 35: Cardiff leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Park City 12: Cardiff leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Park City 28: Cardiff leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Park City 52: Park City leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Park City.

Your match

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

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on wellness and 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.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 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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CardiffPark City

Where the figures come from

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Park City's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Park City 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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffPark City
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation41 m2,134 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffPark City
City population383,5368,396
People per km²2,734185
Museums within 10 km91
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.