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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City or Tel Aviv?

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
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Tel Aviv 52: Salt Lake City leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Tel Aviv 68: Salt Lake City leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Tel Aviv 14: Salt Lake City leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Tel Aviv 35: Salt Lake City leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Tel Aviv.

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 prices with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

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

Tel Aviv in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CityTel Aviv
Official language-Hebrew
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 100, fire 102
Elevation1,288 m5 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CityTel Aviv
City population199,723467,875
People per km²6908,998
Museums within 10 km1298
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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.