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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
Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside

Photos: Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License; Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Park City or Penang?

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 Penang for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Penang’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, Penang 44: Penang leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Park City 40, Penang 86: Penang leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Park City 18, Penang 70: Penang leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Park City 25, Penang 40: Penang leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Park City 92, Penang 55: Park City leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Park City 40, Penang 42: Penang leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Park City 68, Penang 52: Park City leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Park City 60, Penang 40: Park City leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Park City 35, Penang 42: Penang leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Park City 12, Penang 78: Penang leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Park City 28, Penang 30: Penang leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Park City 52, Penang 42: Park City leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Park City and Penang.

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.

Penang
Best match
52match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
12 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. Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre). Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePark CityPenang
Official language-Malay
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation2,134 m4 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePark CityPenang
City population8,396794,313
People per km²185-
Museums within 10 km19
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. 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.