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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Sedona or Wellington?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Wellington for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Wellington 44: Wellington leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Wellington 78: Sedona leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Wellington 40: Sedona leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Wellington 42: Wellington leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Wellington 30: Sedona leads by 52 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and Wellington.

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.

Wellington
Best match
49match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaWellington
Official language-English, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number911111
Elevation1,319 m0 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaWellington
City population9,684216,200
People per km²195487
Museums within 10 km012
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.