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The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Orange Beach 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 Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Park City for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Orange Beach 86, Park City 8: Orange Beach leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Orange Beach and Park City are level on 40.
Culture & sights. Orange Beach 7, Park City 18: Park City leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Orange Beach 30, Park City 25: Orange Beach leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Orange Beach 60, Park City 92: Park City leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Orange Beach 50, Park City 40: Orange Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Orange Beach 75, Park City 68: Orange Beach leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Orange Beach 15, Park City 60: Park City leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Orange Beach 25, Park City 35: Park City leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Orange Beach 38, Park City 12: Orange Beach leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Orange Beach 32, Park City 28: Orange Beach leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Orange Beach 32, Park City 52: Park City leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Orange Beach 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

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on getting around 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.

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 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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Orange BeachPark City

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. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOrange BeachPark City
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m2,134 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrange BeachPark City
City population8,0958,396
People per km²196185
Museums within 10 km01
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.