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Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside
The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea

Photos: Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License; Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License.

Park City or Pattaya?

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 Park City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Pattaya for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Pattaya’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. Park City 8, Pattaya 66: Pattaya leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Park City 40, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Park City 18, Pattaya 30: Pattaya leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Park City 25, Pattaya 76: Pattaya leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Park City 92, Pattaya 40: Park City leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Park City 40, Pattaya 52: Pattaya leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Park City 68, Pattaya 55: Park City leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Park City 60, Pattaya 36: Park City leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Park City 35, Pattaya 42: Pattaya leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Park City 12, Pattaya 84: Pattaya leads by 72 points.
Live music & performing arts. Park City 28, Pattaya 30: Pattaya leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Park City 52, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Park City and Pattaya.

Your match

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

Park City
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Pattaya
Best match
52match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Park City in July

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

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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.

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya 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.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre). Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePark CityPattaya
Official language-Thai
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation2,134 m35 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePark CityPattaya
City population8,396119,532
People per km²185-
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.