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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Interlaken 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 Interlaken for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Park City for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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. Interlaken 30, Park City 8: Interlaken leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Park City 40: Park City leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Park City 18: Park City leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Park City 25: Park City leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Park City 92: Interlaken leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Park City 40: Interlaken leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Park City 68: Interlaken leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Park City 60: Interlaken leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Park City 35: Park City leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Park City 12: Park City leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Park City 28: Park City leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Park City 52: Park City leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Park City.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Interlaken
41match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on food and drink and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
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

Interlaken 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.

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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenPark City
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh-
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m2,134 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenPark City
City population6,1238,396
People per km²1,424185
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.