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The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket
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: Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Phuket 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 Phuket for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • getting around
  • 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. Phuket 90, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Phuket leads by 85 points.
Food & drink. Phuket 66, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Phuket leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Phuket 35, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Phuket leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Phuket 72, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Phuket leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Phuket 80, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Phuket 45, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Phuket leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Phuket 65, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Phuket leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Phuket 22, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Phuket 42, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Phuket leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Phuket 68, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Phuket leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Phuket 20, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Phuket leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Phuket 82, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Phuket leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Phuket and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on getting around and 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.

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 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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PhuketWinter Park, Colorado

Where the figures come from

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

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. Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePhuketWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation19 m2,759 m
Main airportPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhuketWinter Park, Colorado
City population77,6101,033
People per km²6,46824
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.