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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Deer Valley or Penang?

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 Penang for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Penang’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, Penang 44: Penang leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Penang 86: Penang leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Penang 70: Penang leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Penang 40: Penang leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Penang 55: Deer Valley leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Penang 42: Penang leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Penang 52: Deer Valley leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Penang 40: Deer Valley leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Penang 42: Penang leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Penang 78: Penang leads by 74 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley and Penang are level on 30.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Penang 42: Deer Valley leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Penang.

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.

Penang
Best match
52match

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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Deer ValleyPenang

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). Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyPenang
Official language-Malay
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation2,474 m4 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyPenang
City population-794,313
Museums within 10 km09
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.