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Rathausquai on the Reuss, Lucerne
LucerneRathausquai on the Reuss
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: Lucerne by ILOVESwitzerland, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lucerne 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 Lucerne for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • prices

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. Lucerne 35, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Lucerne leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Lucerne 35, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Lucerne leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Lucerne 58, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Lucerne leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Lucerne 28, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Lucerne leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lucerne 92, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Lucerne leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Lucerne 78, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Lucerne leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Lucerne 66, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Lucerne leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Lucerne 86, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Lucerne leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Lucerne 46, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Lucerne leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Lucerne 8, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lucerne 66, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Lucerne leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lucerne and Winter Park, Colorado are level on 46.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lucerne and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Lucerne
Best match
54match

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

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lucerne in July

24 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
141 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 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

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Lucerne 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.

Lucerne's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Zurich Town / Ville..

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. Lucerne: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Emmen (4.2 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLucerneWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh-
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation436 m2,759 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneWinter Park, Colorado
City population86,2341,033
People per km²2,96324
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.