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Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Telluride or Toronto?

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 Toronto for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Telluride 38, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Telluride 20, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Telluride 20, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Telluride 93, Toronto 52: Telluride leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Telluride 30, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Telluride 45, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Telluride 66, Toronto 65: Telluride leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Telluride 25, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Telluride 7, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Telluride 35, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Telluride 45, Toronto 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 Toronto.

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.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and shopping 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
20 °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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTellurideToronto
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,667 m76 m
Main airportMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTellurideToronto
City population2,6072,794,356
People per km²1,3724,434
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. 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.