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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Amman or Winter Park, Colorado?

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 Amman for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’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. Amman 22, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Amman leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Amman leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Amman leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Amman leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Amman leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Amman leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Amman leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Amman leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Amman leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Amman
Best match
45match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AmmanWinter Park, Colorado

Where the figures come from

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado 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. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m2,759 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanWinter Park, Colorado
City population4,007,5261,033
People per km²2,38524
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.