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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Sedona or Vancouver?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Vancouver 45: Sedona leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Vancouver 27: Vancouver leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Vancouver 50: Sedona leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaVancouver
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,319 m2 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaVancouver
City population9,684662,248
People per km²1955,759
Museums within 10 km026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.