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Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
MaastrichtSint Servaasbrug over the Maas
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Maastricht 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 Maastricht for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Park City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Maastricht and Park City are level on 8.
Food & drink. Maastricht 58, Park City 40: Maastricht leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Maastricht 60, Park City 18: Maastricht leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Maastricht 42, Park City 25: Maastricht leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Maastricht 58, Park City 92: Park City leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Maastricht 77, Park City 40: Maastricht leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Maastricht 55, Park City 68: Park City leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Maastricht 74, Park City 60: Maastricht leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Maastricht 60, Park City 35: Maastricht leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Maastricht 38, Park City 12: Maastricht leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Maastricht 40, Park City 28: Maastricht leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Maastricht and Park City are level on 52.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Maastricht and Park City.

Your match

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

Maastricht
Best match
52match

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

Park City
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 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

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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMaastrichtPark City
Official languageDutch-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation49 m2,134 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtPark City
City population120,2278,396
People per km²2,000185
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50

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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). 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.