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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
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: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bologna 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 Bologna for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

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. Bologna 30, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Bologna leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Bologna leads by 58 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Bologna leads by 71 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Bologna leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Bologna leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Bologna leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Bologna leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Bologna leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Bologna leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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.

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
15 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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Where the figures come from

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m2,759 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaWinter Park, Colorado
City population387,9711,033
People per km²2,75424
Museums within 10 km680
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.