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The beach and pier at uShaka, Durban
DurbanThe beach and pier at uShaka
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Durban by Ossewa, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Durban or Park City?

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 Durban for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Park City for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Park City’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. Durban 80, Park City 8: Durban leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Park City 40: Durban leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Park City 18: Durban leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Park City 25: Durban leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Park City 92: Park City leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Park City 40: Park City leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Park City 68: Park City leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Park City 60: Park City leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Park City 35: Durban leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Park City 12: Durban leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Park City 28: Durban leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Park City 52: Park City leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Park City.

Your match

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

Durban
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on getting around 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.

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Park City's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Park City 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. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanPark City
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language-
CurrencyRand (ZAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation22 m2,134 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanPark City
City population595,0618,396
People per km²2,634185
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.