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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City or San Miguel de Allende?

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 Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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. Salt Lake City 12, San Miguel de Allende 4: Salt Lake City leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, San Miguel de Allende 40: Salt Lake City leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, San Miguel de Allende 32: Salt Lake City leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, San Miguel de Allende 40: Salt Lake City leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on day trips 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.

Salt Lake City in July

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Salt Lake CitySan Miguel de Allende

Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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. Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CitySan Miguel de Allende
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,288 m1,900 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CitySan Miguel de Allende
City population199,72369,811
People per km²690-
Museums within 10 km122
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.