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The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace
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: Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Madrid 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 Madrid for

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

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Madrid and Winter Park, Colorado are level on 5.
Food & drink. Madrid 80, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Madrid leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Madrid 86, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Madrid leads by 80 points.
Nightlife. Madrid 85, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Madrid leads by 70 points.
Nature & outdoors. Madrid 60, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Madrid 89, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Madrid leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Madrid 68, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Madrid leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Madrid 84, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Madrid leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Madrid 75, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Madrid leads by 63 points.
Affordability. Madrid 50, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Madrid leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Madrid 77, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Madrid leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Madrid 36, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Madrid and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

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.

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 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

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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMadridWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation663 m2,759 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridWinter Park, Colorado
City population3,506,7301,033
People per km²5,80124
Museums within 10 km880
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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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). 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.