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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
Fishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Santa Teresa, Costa RicaFishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset

Photos: Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License; Santa Teresa, Costa Rica by Christopher Crouzet, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Park City or Santa Teresa, Costa Rica?

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
  • families
  • day trips

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

Choose Santa Teresa, Costa Rica for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Teresa, Costa Rica’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, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 84: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Park City and Santa Teresa, Costa Rica are level on 40.
Culture & sights. Park City 18, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 4: Park City leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Park City 25, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 30: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Park City 92, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 78: Park City leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Park City 40, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12: Park City leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Park City 68, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 35: Park City leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Park City 60, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 15: Park City leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Park City 35, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12: Park City leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Park City 12, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 25: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Park City 28, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 8: Park City leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Park City 52, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 70: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Park City and Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.

Your match

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

Park City
Best match
40match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
34match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
218 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Park CitySanta Teresa, Costa Rica

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.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica's temperatures are measured 52 km from the centre, at Puntarenas.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 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). Santa Teresa, Costa Rica: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puntarenas (51.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePark CitySanta Teresa, Costa Rica
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,134 m19 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)113 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePark CitySanta Teresa, Costa Rica
City population8,396-
People per km²185-
Museums within 10 km10
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.