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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Delhi or Telluride?

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 Delhi for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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. Delhi 4, Telluride 5: Telluride leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Telluride 38: Delhi leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Telluride 20: Delhi leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Telluride 20: Delhi leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 73 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Telluride 30: Delhi leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Telluride 66: Telluride leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Telluride 25: Delhi leads by 53 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Telluride 7: Delhi leads by 83 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Telluride 35: Delhi leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Telluride.

Your match

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

Delhi
Best match
53match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Telluride
36match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 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

Telluride 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. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiTelluride
Official languageHindi, English-
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation221 m2,667 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiTelluride
City population26,495,0002,607
People per km²18,9621,372
Museums within 10 km230
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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). 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.