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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard 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: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Laguna Beach 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 Laguna Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • 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. Laguna Beach 72, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Laguna Beach leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Laguna Beach leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Laguna Beach leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Laguna Beach leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Laguna Beach leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Laguna Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Laguna Beach leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Laguna Beach leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Laguna Beach leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Laguna BeachWinter 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. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachWinter Park, Colorado
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation6 m2,759 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachWinter Park, Colorado
City population23,0321,033
People per km²90724
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.