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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 beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Park City or Virginia Beach?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Park City 40, Virginia Beach 42: Virginia Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Park City 18, Virginia Beach 30: Virginia Beach leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Park City 25, Virginia Beach 37: Virginia Beach leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Park City 92, Virginia Beach 56: Park City leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Park City 40, Virginia Beach 64: Virginia Beach leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Park City 68, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Park City 60, Virginia Beach 27: Park City leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Park City 35, Virginia Beach 32: Park City leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Park City 12, Virginia Beach 40: Virginia Beach leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Park City 28, Virginia Beach 38: Virginia Beach leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Park City 52, Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach.

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.

Virginia Beach
Best match
46match

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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Park CityVirginia Beach

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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePark CityVirginia Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,134 m7 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePark CityVirginia Beach
City population8,396459,470
People per km²185-
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.