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The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower
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: Johannesburg by K, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

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. Johannesburg and Winter Park, Colorado are level on 5.
Food & drink. Johannesburg 58, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Johannesburg leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Johannesburg 56, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Johannesburg leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Johannesburg 62, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Johannesburg leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Johannesburg 55, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Johannesburg 52, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Johannesburg leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Johannesburg 42, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Johannesburg 18, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Johannesburg 58, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Johannesburg leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Johannesburg 72, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Johannesburg leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Johannesburg 55, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Johannesburg leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Johannesburg 28, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Johannesburg and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Johannesburg
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
11 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

-10°0°10°20°30°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

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JohannesburgWinter Park, Colorado

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. Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJohannesburgWinter 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
Elevation1,753 m2,759 m
Main airportO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureJohannesburgWinter Park, Colorado
City population4,803,2621,033
People per km²2,92224
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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. 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.