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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License.

Deer Valley or Key West?

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 Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Key West for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’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. Deer Valley 10, Key West 60: Key West leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Key West 45: Key West leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Key West 40: Key West leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Key West 62: Key West leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Key West 62: Deer Valley leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Key West 28: Deer Valley leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Key West 40: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Key West 62: Key West leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Key West 30: Key West leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Key West 15: Key West leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Key West 38: Key West leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Key West 40: Deer Valley leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Key West.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
36match

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

Key West
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Deer Valley in July

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Deer ValleyKey West

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.

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyKey West
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,474 m4 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyKey West
City population-26,444
People per km²-1,407
Museums within 10 km07
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.