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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Quito or Turin?

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 Quito for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Turin for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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. Quito 5, Turin 12: Turin leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Turin 81: Turin leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Quito 77, Turin 78: Turin leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Turin 50: Turin leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Turin 80: Quito leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Turin 84: Turin leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Turin 57: Turin leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Turin 68: Turin leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Turin 58: Turin leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Turin 58: Quito leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito 38, Turin 65: Turin leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 44, Turin 40: Quito leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quito and Turin.

Your match

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

Quito
50match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
12 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 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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QuitoTurin

Where the figures come from

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Turin 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. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuitoTurin
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern QuichuaItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,850 m239 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoTurin
City population1,763,275841,600
People per km²4,7356,474
Museums within 10 km1672
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.