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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Deer Valley or Sydney?

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

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

Choose Sydney for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 85 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Sydney 85: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Sydney 50: Sydney leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Sydney 22: Sydney leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Sydney 55: Sydney leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Sydney.

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 with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on beaches 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleySydney
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation2,474 m6 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleySydney
City population-5,450,496
People per km²-449
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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.