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Yellow colonial houses in the walled city, Cartagena
CartagenaYellow colonial houses in the walled city
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Cartagena by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Cartagena 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 Cartagena for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

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. Cartagena 70, Deer Valley 10: Cartagena leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Cartagena 62, Deer Valley 38: Cartagena leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Cartagena 68, Deer Valley 15: Cartagena leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Cartagena 70, Deer Valley 25: Cartagena leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cartagena 46, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Cartagena 33, Deer Valley 38: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Cartagena 40, Deer Valley 60: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Cartagena 54, Deer Valley 50: Cartagena leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cartagena 48, Deer Valley 25: Cartagena leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Cartagena 60, Deer Valley 4: Cartagena leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cartagena 40, Deer Valley 30: Cartagena leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cartagena 40, Deer Valley 52: Deer Valley leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cartagena and Deer Valley.

Your match

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

Cartagena
Best match
53match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

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.

Cartagena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
124 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 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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CartagenaDeer Valley

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. Cartagena: 1991-2020 normals, Cartagena / Rafael Nunez (3.1 km from centre). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCartagenaDeer Valley
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation2 m2,474 m
Main airportRafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)2 km from centre26 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCartagenaDeer Valley
City population914,552-
People per km²1,599-
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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