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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City or Ubud?

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

  • getting around
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Ubud for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Ubud leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Ubud 15: Salt Lake City leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Ubud 80: Salt Lake City leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Ubud 48: Salt Lake City leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Ubud 10: Salt Lake City leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Ubud 47: Salt Lake City leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 58 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Ubud.

Your match

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

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

Wins on wellness and prices 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

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Salt Lake CityUbud

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CityUbud
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,288 m210 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CityUbud
City population199,723-
People per km²690-
Museums within 10 km1214
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.