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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Santa Fe or York?

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 Santa Fe for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Choose York for

  • getting around
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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. Santa Fe 5, York 14: York leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, York 42: Santa Fe leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe 66, York 70: York leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, York 36: York leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, York 62: Santa Fe leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, York 80: York leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, York 60: York leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, York 72: York leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, York 46: Santa Fe leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, York 38: York leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, York 38: Santa Fe leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, York 34: Santa Fe leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and York.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Santa Fe
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Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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.

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeYork
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation2,134 m25 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeYork
City population87,505208,400
People per km²645766
Museums within 10 km1024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.