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Lion's Head above Clifton Beach, Cape Town
Cape TownLion's Head above Clifton Beach
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: Cape Town by Stephan Louis, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cape Town 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 Cape Town for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • getting around
  • 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. Cape Town 58, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Cape Town leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Cape Town 72, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Cape Town leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Cape Town 60, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Cape Town leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Cape Town 60, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Cape Town leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cape Town 98, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Cape Town leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cape Town 68, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Cape Town leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Cape Town 58, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cape Town 35, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Cape Town 50, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Cape Town leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Cape Town 72, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Cape Town leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cape Town 52, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Cape Town leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cape Town 45, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cape Town and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Cape Town
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on getting around 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.

Cape Town in July

18 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
89 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Winter Park, Colorado in July

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

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. Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCape TownWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language-
CurrencyRand (ZAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation5 m2,759 m
Main airportCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCape TownWinter Park, Colorado
City population3,776,3131,033
People per km²1,53824
Museums within 10 km220
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.