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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Deer Valley or Petra?

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

  • families
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Petra for

  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Petra 22: Deer Valley leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Petra 85: Petra leads by 70 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Petra 5: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Petra 78: Deer Valley leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Petra 30: Deer Valley leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Petra 25: Deer Valley leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Petra 25: Deer Valley leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Petra 18: Deer Valley leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Petra 45: Petra leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Petra 10: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Petra 28: Deer Valley leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Petra.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
Best match
36match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Petra
31match

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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Deer ValleyPetra

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.

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyPetra
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,474 m850 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyPetra
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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.