VacationSelector
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Deer Valley or Orlando?

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
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Orlando for

  • families
  • shopping
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Orlando’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, Orlando 42: Orlando leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Orlando 48: Orlando leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Orlando 22: Orlando leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Orlando 46: Deer Valley leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Orlando 8: Deer Valley leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Orlando 36: Orlando leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Orlando 32: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Orlando.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Orlando
Best match
44match

Wins on families and shopping 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
15 hdaylight a day

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

-10°0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
Deer ValleyOrlando

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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyOrlando
City population-334,854
People per km²-1,086
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Deer Valley or Orlando somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.