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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Sedona or Victoria Falls?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Sedona leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Victoria Falls 24: Sedona leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Victoria Falls 12: Sedona leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Sedona and Victoria Falls are level on 8.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Victoria Falls 22: Sedona leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Victoria Falls 38: Sedona leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Victoria Falls 18: Sedona leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Victoria Falls 32: Victoria Falls leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Victoria Falls 10: Sedona leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Victoria Falls 34: Sedona leads by 48 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Sedona
Best match
36match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on getting around and prices 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
14 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SedonaVictoria Falls

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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaVictoria Falls
Official language-English, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+2
Emergency number911999
Elevation1,319 m961 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaVictoria Falls
City population9,68433,060
People per km²195-
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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. 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.