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The skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake, Denver
DenverThe skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake
The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Denver by Zenhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Denver or Interlaken?

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 Denver for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Interlaken for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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. Denver 5, Interlaken 30: Interlaken leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Denver 54, Interlaken 25: Denver leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Denver 44, Interlaken 8: Denver leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Denver 47, Interlaken 15: Denver leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Denver 84, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Denver 57, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Denver 67, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Denver 40, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Denver 44, Interlaken 22: Denver leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Denver 36, Interlaken 8: Denver leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Denver 66, Interlaken 15: Denver leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Denver and Interlaken are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Denver and Interlaken.

Your match

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

Denver
Best match
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Denver in July

32 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
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

Interlaken 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. Denver: 1991-2020 normals, Denver / Stapleton International, Co. (11.2 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDenverInterlaken
Official language-French, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,609 m571 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)30 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDenverInterlaken
City population715,5226,123
People per km²1,7831,424
Museums within 10 km263
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.