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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Deer Valley or Oaxaca?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Oaxaca 62: Deer Valley leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Oaxaca 65: Oaxaca leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Oaxaca 40: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 73 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Oaxaca 50: Deer Valley leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Oaxaca.

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.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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 recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Oaxaca in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Deer ValleyOaxaca

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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyOaxaca
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,474 m1,555 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyOaxaca
City population-258,913
People per km²-3,028
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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. 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.