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The Space Needle behind Pier 70, Seattle
SeattleThe Space Needle behind Pier 70
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: Seattle by Caio, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Seattle 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 Seattle for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • 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. Seattle 30, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Seattle leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Seattle 66, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Seattle leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Seattle 50, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Seattle leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Seattle 55, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Seattle leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Seattle 87, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Seattle 55, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Seattle leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Seattle 64, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Seattle leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Seattle 60, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Seattle leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Seattle 52, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Seattle leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Seattle 22, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Seattle 70, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Seattle leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Seattle 40, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Seattle and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Seattle
Best match
54match

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

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Seattle in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
15 mmrain in the month
12 °Csea
16 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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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. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSeattleWinter Park, Colorado
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation40 m2,759 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleWinter Park, Colorado
City population737,0151,033
People per km²1,99624
Museums within 10 km270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.