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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Sedona or St. Pete Beach?

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 Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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. Sedona 16, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, St. Pete Beach 40: St. Pete Beach leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, St. Pete Beach 18: Sedona leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, St. Pete Beach 28: St. Pete Beach leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, St. Pete Beach 57: Sedona leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, St. Pete Beach 30: St. Pete Beach leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, St. Pete Beach 20: Sedona leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, St. Pete Beach 32: St. Pete Beach leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, St. Pete Beach 20: St. Pete Beach leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, St. Pete Beach 42: Sedona leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Sedona
36match

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

St. Pete Beach
Best match
42match

Wins on beaches 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.

Sedona in July

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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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.

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaSt. Pete Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,319 m2 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre149 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaSt. Pete Beach
City population9,6848,879
People per km²195173
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.