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The Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía, Cusco
CuscoThe Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Cusco by Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Cusco 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 Cusco for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Park City for

  • families
  • wellness
  • getting around

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. Cusco 3, Park City 8: Park City leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Cusco 56, Park City 40: Cusco leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Cusco 81, Park City 18: Cusco leads by 63 points.
Nightlife. Cusco 42, Park City 25: Cusco leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cusco 86, Park City 92: Park City leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Cusco 78, Park City 40: Cusco leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Cusco 10, Park City 68: Park City leads by 58 points.
Getting around. Cusco 48, Park City 60: Park City leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Cusco 52, Park City 35: Cusco leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Cusco 73, Park City 12: Cusco leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cusco 30, Park City 28: Cusco leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cusco 33, Park City 52: Park City leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cusco and Park City.

Your match

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

Cusco
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on families 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.

Cusco in July

20 °Cdaytime high
1 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CuscoPark City

Where the figures come from

Cusco's station stands 151 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

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. Cusco: 1991-2020 normals, Cuzco (3.7 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCuscoPark City
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation3,399 m2,134 m
Main airportAlejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ)5 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCuscoPark City
City population428,4508,396
People per km²-185
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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). 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.