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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License.

Deer Valley or Puerto Iguazu?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Puerto Iguazu for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’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, Puerto Iguazu 5: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Puerto Iguazu 28: Deer Valley leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Puerto Iguazu 9: Deer Valley leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Puerto Iguazu 14: Deer Valley leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Puerto Iguazu 95: Puerto Iguazu leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Puerto Iguazu 33: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Puerto Iguazu 55: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Puerto Iguazu 54: Puerto Iguazu leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Puerto Iguazu 17: Deer Valley leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Puerto Iguazu 48: Puerto Iguazu leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Puerto Iguazu 7: Deer Valley leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Puerto Iguazu 34: Deer Valley leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Puerto Iguazu.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
Best match
36match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness with your weighting.

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

-10°0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

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Deer ValleyPuerto Iguazu

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). Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyPuerto Iguazu
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation2,474 m162 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyPuerto Iguazu
City population-54,903
Museums within 10 km00
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.