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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Deer Valley or Orange Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Orange Beach 40: Orange Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Orange Beach 7: Deer Valley leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Orange Beach 30: Orange Beach leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Orange Beach 60: Deer Valley leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Orange Beach 50: Orange Beach leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Orange Beach 15: Deer Valley leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley and Orange Beach are level on 25.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Orange Beach 38: Orange Beach leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Orange Beach 32: Orange Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Orange Beach 32: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Orange Beach.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Orange Beach
Best match
41match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Deer ValleyOrange Beach

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). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyOrange Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,474 m4 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyOrange Beach
City population-8,095
People per km²-196
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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.