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Rathausquai on the Reuss, Lucerne
LucerneRathausquai on the Reuss
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Lucerne by ILOVESwitzerland, Pexels License; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Lucerne 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 Lucerne for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Park City for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • prices

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. Lucerne 35, Park City 8: Lucerne leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Lucerne 35, Park City 40: Park City leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Lucerne 58, Park City 18: Lucerne leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Lucerne 28, Park City 25: Lucerne leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lucerne and Park City are level on 92.
Day trips. Lucerne 78, Park City 40: Lucerne leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Lucerne 66, Park City 68: Park City leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Lucerne 86, Park City 60: Lucerne leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Lucerne 46, Park City 35: Lucerne leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Lucerne 8, Park City 12: Park City leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lucerne 66, Park City 28: Lucerne leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lucerne 46, Park City 52: Park City leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lucerne and Park City.

Your match

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

Lucerne
Best match
54match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lucerne in July

24 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
141 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Lucerne 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.

Lucerne's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Zurich Town / Ville..

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. Lucerne: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Emmen (4.2 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLucernePark 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
Elevation436 m2,134 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucernePark City
City population86,2348,396
People per km²2,963185
Museums within 10 km141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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.