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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Hong Kong 50, Salt Lake City 12: Hong Kong leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Salt Lake City 40: Hong Kong leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Salt Lake City 42: Hong Kong leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Salt Lake City 30: Hong Kong leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Salt Lake City 34: Hong Kong leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Salt Lake City 72: Hong Kong leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Salt Lake City 42: Hong Kong leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Salt Lake City 36: Hong Kong leads by 52 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong and Salt Lake City are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 42, Salt Lake City 38: Hong Kong leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

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.

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Hong KongSalt Lake City

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHong KongSalt Lake City
Official languageStandard Chinese-
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m1,288 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongSalt Lake City
City population7,413,070199,723
People per km²-690
Museums within 10 km3912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.