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The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Cologne 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 Cologne for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Cologne 14, Deer Valley 10: Cologne leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Cologne 52, Deer Valley 38: Cologne leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Cologne 67, Deer Valley 15: Cologne leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Cologne 66, Deer Valley 25: Cologne leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cologne 56, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Cologne 80, Deer Valley 38: Cologne leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Cologne 70, Deer Valley 60: Cologne leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cologne 74, Deer Valley 50: Cologne leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Cologne 57, Deer Valley 25: Cologne leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Cologne 46, Deer Valley 4: Cologne leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cologne 68, Deer Valley 30: Cologne leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cologne 50, Deer Valley 52: Deer Valley leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cologne and Deer Valley.

Your match

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

Cologne
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cologne in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
81 mmrain in the month
7 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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCologneDeer Valley
Official languageGerman-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation59 m2,474 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneDeer Valley
City population1,025,523-
People per km²2,532-
Museums within 10 km400
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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). 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.