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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Sedona or Valencia?

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 Valencia for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Valencia 60: Sedona leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Valencia 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 Valencia.

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.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaValencia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,319 m15 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaValencia
City population9,684840,792
People per km²1956,242
Museums within 10 km045
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.