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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Fukuoka 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 Fukuoka for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Park City for

  • nature and the outdoors

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. Fukuoka 50, Park City 8: Fukuoka leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Park City 40: Fukuoka leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Park City 18: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka 60, Park City 25: Fukuoka leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Park City 92: Park City leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Park City 40: Fukuoka leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Park City 68: Fukuoka leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Park City 60: Fukuoka leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Park City 35: Fukuoka leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Park City 12: Fukuoka leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Park City 28: Fukuoka leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Park City 52: Fukuoka leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Park City.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on 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.

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaPark City
Official languageJapanese-
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation8 m2,134 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaPark City
City population1,603,0438,396
People per km²4,715185
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.