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Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Savannah or Vail?

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
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Vail for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Savannah leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Savannah 58, Vail 35: Savannah leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Savannah 68, Vail 10: Savannah leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Savannah 52, Vail 30: Savannah leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Savannah 48, Vail 92: Vail leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Savannah 60, Vail 45: Savannah leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Savannah 50, Vail 55: Vail leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Savannah 58, Vail 62: Vail leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Savannah 42, Vail 35: Savannah leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Savannah 35, Vail 5: Savannah leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Savannah 40, Vail 42: Vail leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Savannah 40, Vail 48: Vail leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Savannah and Vail.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Vail
39match

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

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSavannahVail
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation15 m2,445 m
Main airportSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSavannahVail
City population147,7804,835
People per km²524400
Museums within 10 km191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.