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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
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Park City or Samarkand?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Samarkand for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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, Samarkand 4: Park City leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Park City 40, Samarkand 54: Samarkand leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Park City 18, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Park City 25, Samarkand 14: Park City leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Park City 92, Samarkand 40: Park City leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Park City 40, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Park City 68, Samarkand 30: Park City leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Park City 60, Samarkand 58: Park City leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Park City 35, Samarkand 42: Samarkand leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Park City 12, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Park City 28, Samarkand 24: Park City leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Park City 52, Samarkand 32: Park City leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Park City and Samarkand.

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 families with your weighting.

Samarkand
Best match
45match

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 recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine 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. Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePark CitySamarkand
Official language-Uzbek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+5
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m702 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePark CitySamarkand
City population8,396546,303
People per km²1855,058
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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. 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.