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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
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: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Quito 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 Quito for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • families
  • 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. Quito and Winter Park, Colorado are level on 5.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Quito leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Quito 77, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Quito leads by 71 points.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Quito leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Quito leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Quito leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Quito leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Quito leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito 38, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Quito leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 44, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quito and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Quito
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on families 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.

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
12 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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QuitoWinter Park, Colorado

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.

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. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuitoWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern Quichua-
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,850 m2,759 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoWinter Park, Colorado
City population1,763,2751,033
People per km²4,73524
Museums within 10 km160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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.