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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 Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Park City or Phuket?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Phuket for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’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, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Park City 40, Phuket 66: Phuket leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Park City 18, Phuket 35: Phuket leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Park City 25, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Park City 92, Phuket 80: Park City leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Park City 40, Phuket 45: Phuket leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Park City 68, Phuket 65: Park City leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Park City 60, Phuket 22: Park City leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Park City 35, Phuket 42: Phuket leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Park City 12, Phuket 68: Phuket leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Park City 28, Phuket 20: Park City leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Park City 52, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Park City and Phuket.

Your match

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

Park City
40match

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

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Park CityPhuket

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.

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

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). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePark CityPhuket
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 m19 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePark CityPhuket
City population8,39677,610
People per km²1856,468
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.