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The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Cologne 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 Cologne for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Park City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Cologne 14, Park City 8: Cologne leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Cologne 52, Park City 40: Cologne leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Cologne 67, Park City 18: Cologne leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Cologne 66, Park City 25: Cologne leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cologne 56, Park City 92: Park City leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Cologne 80, Park City 40: Cologne leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Cologne 70, Park City 68: Cologne leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cologne 74, Park City 60: Cologne leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Cologne 57, Park City 35: Cologne leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cologne 46, Park City 12: Cologne leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cologne 68, Park City 28: Cologne leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cologne 50, Park City 52: Park City leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cologne and Park City.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Park City
40match

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

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

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureColognePark City
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 m2,134 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureColognePark City
City population1,025,5238,396
People per km²2,532185
Museums within 10 km401
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. 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.