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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Sedona or Thessaloniki?

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

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 68 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Thessaloniki 66: Sedona leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Thessaloniki 33: Sedona leads by 49 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and Thessaloniki.

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.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights 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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
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

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. Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaThessaloniki
Official language-Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,319 m6 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaThessaloniki
City population9,684309,617
People per km²19516,042
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.