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Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Savannah or Sedona?

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 Savannah for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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. Savannah 55, Sedona 16: Savannah leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Savannah 58, Sedona 33: Savannah leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Savannah 68, Sedona 20: Savannah leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Savannah 52, Sedona 8: Savannah leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Savannah 48, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Savannah 60, Sedona 55: Savannah leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Savannah 50, Sedona 42: Savannah leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Savannah 58, Sedona 22: Savannah leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Savannah 42, Sedona 34: Savannah leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Savannah 35, Sedona 18: Savannah leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Savannah 40, Sedona 13: Savannah leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Savannah 40, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Savannah and Sedona.

Your match

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

Savannah
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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. Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSavannahSedona
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation15 m1,319 m
Main airportSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSavannahSedona
City population147,7809,684
People per km²524195
Museums within 10 km190
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months-

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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.