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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Lisbon 50, Telluride 5: Lisbon leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Telluride 38: Lisbon leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Telluride 20: Lisbon leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Telluride 20: Lisbon leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Telluride 30: Lisbon leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Telluride 45: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Lisbon and Telluride are level on 66.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Telluride 25: Lisbon leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Telluride 7: Lisbon leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Telluride 35: Lisbon leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Telluride.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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.

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonTelluride
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m2,667 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonTelluride
City population545,7962,607
People per km²5,4531,372
Museums within 10 km800
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.