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Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River
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: Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Ottawa 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 Ottawa for

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

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors

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. Ottawa 35, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Ottawa leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Ottawa 45, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Ottawa leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Ottawa 62, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Ottawa leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Ottawa 35, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Ottawa leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ottawa 68, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Ottawa 55, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Ottawa leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Ottawa 68, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Ottawa leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Ottawa 62, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Ottawa leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Ottawa 40, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Ottawa leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Ottawa 40, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Ottawa leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ottawa 52, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Ottawa leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ottawa 55, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Ottawa leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ottawa and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Ottawa
Best match
51match

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

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOttawaWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageFrench, English-
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation70 m2,759 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaWinter Park, Colorado
City population1,017,4491,033
People per km²36624
Museums within 10 km200
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). 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.