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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Salt Lake City or Valencia?

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

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Valencia 60: Salt Lake City leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City and Valencia are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Valencia.

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 with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Salt Lake CityValencia

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CityValencia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,288 m15 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CityValencia
City population199,723840,792
People per km²6906,242
Museums within 10 km1245
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.