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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Delhi or Vail?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Vail for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Vail leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Vail 35: Delhi leads by 49 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Vail 10: Delhi leads by 75 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Vail 30: Delhi leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Vail 92: Vail leads by 72 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Vail 45: Delhi leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Vail 55: Vail leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Vail 62: Vail leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Vail 35: Delhi leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Vail 5: Delhi leads by 85 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Vail 42: Delhi leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Vail 48: Vail leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Vail.

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.

Vail
39match

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.

Delhi in July

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

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 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

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiVail
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 m2,445 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiVail
City population26,495,0004,835
People per km²18,962400
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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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.