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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
The statue of Columbus in Parque Colon before the cathedral, Santo Domingo
Santo DomingoThe statue of Columbus in Parque Colon before the cathedral

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Santo Domingo by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City or Santo Domingo?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Santo Domingo for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Santo Domingo’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, Santo Domingo 58: Santo Domingo leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Santo Domingo 58: Santo Domingo leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Santo Domingo 64: Santo Domingo leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Santo Domingo 66: Santo Domingo leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Santo Domingo 36: Salt Lake City leads by 54 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Santo Domingo 44: Santo Domingo leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Santo Domingo 40: Salt Lake City leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Santo Domingo 40: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Santo Domingo 44: Santo Domingo leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Santo Domingo 66: Santo Domingo leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Santo Domingo 46: Salt Lake City leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Santo Domingo 22: Salt Lake City leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Santo Domingo.

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.

Santo Domingo
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Santo Domingo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
183 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Salt Lake CitySanto Domingo

Where the figures come from

Santo Domingo 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). Santo Domingo: 1991-2020 normals, Santo Domingo (6.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CitySanto Domingo
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,288 m14 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsLas Américas International Airport (SDQ)28 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CitySanto Domingo
City population199,7232,201,941
People per km²6901,691
Museums within 10 km1210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.