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Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Telluride or Thessaloniki?

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 Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • getting around

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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. Telluride 5, Thessaloniki 55: Thessaloniki leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Telluride 38, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Telluride 20, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Telluride 20, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Telluride 93, Thessaloniki 66: Telluride leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Telluride 30, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Telluride 45, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Telluride 66, Thessaloniki 60: Telluride leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Telluride 25, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Telluride 7, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Telluride 35, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Telluride 45, Thessaloniki 33: Telluride leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Telluride and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Telluride
36match

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

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
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

Telluride 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. Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTellurideThessaloniki
Official language-Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,667 m6 m
Main airportMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureTellurideThessaloniki
City population2,607309,617
People per km²1,37216,042
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.