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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The skyline over the Schuylkill, Philadelphia
PhiladelphiaThe skyline over the Schuylkill

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Philadelphia by Trev W. Adams, Pexels License.

Deer Valley or Philadelphia?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Philadelphia for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Philadelphia’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, Philadelphia 36: Philadelphia leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Philadelphia 62: Philadelphia leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Philadelphia 72: Philadelphia leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Philadelphia 55: Philadelphia leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Philadelphia 52: Deer Valley leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Philadelphia 80: Philadelphia leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Philadelphia 68: Philadelphia leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Philadelphia 66: Philadelphia leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Philadelphia 57: Philadelphia leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Philadelphia 40: Philadelphia leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Philadelphia 72: Philadelphia leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Philadelphia 26: Deer Valley leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Philadelphia.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Philadelphia
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Philadelphia in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyPhiladelphia
City population-1,603,797
People per km²-4,339
Museums within 10 km054
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.