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Wat Chiang Man in the old city, Chiang Mai
Chiang MaiWat Chiang Man in the old city
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: Chiang Mai by Gije Cho, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Chiang Mai 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 Chiang Mai for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Chiang Mai’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. Chiang Mai 6, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Chiang Mai leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Chiang Mai 78, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Chiang Mai leads by 54 points.
Culture & sights. Chiang Mai 65, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Chiang Mai leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Chiang Mai 45, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Chiang Mai leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chiang Mai 73, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Chiang Mai 48, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Chiang Mai leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Chiang Mai 55, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Chiang Mai 38, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Chiang Mai 62, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Chiang Mai leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Chiang Mai 90, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Chiang Mai leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chiang Mai 30, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Chiang Mai leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chiang Mai 82, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Chiang Mai leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chiang Mai and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Chiang Mai
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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.

Chiang Mai in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
13 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

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. Chiang Mai: 1991-2020 normals, Chiang Mai (0.6 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChiang MaiWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation310 m2,759 m
Main airportChiang Mai International Airport (CNX)3 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureChiang MaiWinter Park, Colorado
City population1,198,0001,033
People per km²2,95824
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.