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Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Portofino or Salt Lake City?

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 Portofino for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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. Portofino 60, Salt Lake City 12: Portofino leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Portofino 36, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Portofino 22, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Portofino 14, Salt Lake City 30: Salt Lake City leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Portofino 77, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Portofino 76, Salt Lake City 34: Portofino leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Portofino 33, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Portofino 50, Salt Lake City 42: Portofino leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Portofino 29, Salt Lake City 36: Salt Lake City leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Portofino 9, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Portofino 7, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Portofino 42, Salt Lake City 38: Portofino leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Portofino and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Portofino
38match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
Best match
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PortofinoSalt Lake City

Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino 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. Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortofinoSalt Lake City
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m1,288 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortofinoSalt Lake City
City population355199,723
People per km²142690
Museums within 10 km1412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.