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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City or Tangier?

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

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

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

Choose Tangier for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City and Tangier are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Tangier 55: Salt Lake City leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Tangier 35: Salt Lake City leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Tangier 40: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Tangier 28: Salt Lake City leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Tangier.

Your match

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

Salt Lake City
44match

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

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Salt Lake CityTangier

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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CityTangier
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation1,288 m56 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CityTangier
City population199,7231,275,428
People per km²6906,393
Museums within 10 km126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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.