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Durban
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Durban or Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake 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, Salt Lake City 12: Durban leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Salt Lake City 40: Durban leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Salt Lake City 30: Durban leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Salt Lake City 34: Durban leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Salt Lake City 36: Durban leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Salt Lake City 40: Durban leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Salt Lake City 38: Salt Lake City leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Salt Lake 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.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 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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DurbanSalt Lake City

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanSalt Lake 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 m1,288 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanSalt Lake City
City population595,061199,723
People per km²2,634690
Museums within 10 km112
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.