VacationSelector
Wat Chiang Man in the old city, Chiang Mai
Chiang MaiWat Chiang Man in the old city
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Chiang Mai by Gije Cho, Pexels License; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Chiang Mai 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 Chiang Mai for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Park City for

  • getting around
  • 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. Chiang Mai 6, Park City 8: Park City leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Chiang Mai 78, Park City 40: Chiang Mai leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Chiang Mai 65, Park City 18: Chiang Mai leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Chiang Mai 45, Park City 25: Chiang Mai leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chiang Mai 73, Park City 92: Park City leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Chiang Mai 48, Park City 40: Chiang Mai leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Chiang Mai 55, Park City 68: Park City leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Chiang Mai 38, Park City 60: Park City leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Chiang Mai 62, Park City 35: Chiang Mai leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Chiang Mai 90, Park City 12: Chiang Mai leads by 78 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chiang Mai 30, Park City 28: Chiang Mai leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chiang Mai 82, Park City 52: Chiang Mai leads by 30 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chiang Mai and Park City.

Your match

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

Chiang Mai
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on getting around 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.

Chiang Mai in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

-10°0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
Chiang MaiPark City

Where the figures come from

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. Chiang Mai: 1991-2020 normals, Chiang Mai (0.6 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChiang MaiPark City
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation310 m2,134 m
Main airportChiang Mai International Airport (CNX)3 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureChiang MaiPark City
City population1,198,0008,396
People per km²2,958185
Museums within 10 km61
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Chiang Mai or Park City somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.