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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Deer Valley or Phnom Penh?

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
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Deer Valley leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Phnom Penh 28: Deer Valley leads by 62 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Phnom Penh 34: Deer Valley leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Phnom Penh 32: Deer Valley leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Phnom Penh 35: Deer Valley leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 82 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Phnom Penh 32: Phnom Penh leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Phnom Penh 50: Deer Valley leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Phnom Penh.

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 families with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
Best match
44match

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
15 hdaylight a day

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Deer ValleyPhnom Penh

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyPhnom Penh
Official language-Khmer
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Riel (KHR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation2,474 m11 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyPhnom Penh
City population-2,129,371
People per km²-3,138
Museums within 10 km03
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.