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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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. La Romana 84, Salt Lake City 12: La Romana leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. La Romana and Salt Lake City are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 28 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Salt Lake City 34: La Romana leads by 18 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 16 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Salt Lake City 36: Salt Lake City leads by 8 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Salt Lake City 40: La Romana leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Salt Lake City 38: La Romana leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaSalt Lake City
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation10 m1,288 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 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

MeasureLa RomanaSalt Lake City
City population139,238199,723
People per km²512690
Museums within 10 km012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.