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Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Telluride or Ushuaia?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: Telluride leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Telluride 38, Ushuaia 40: Ushuaia leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Telluride 20, Ushuaia 22: Ushuaia leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Telluride 20, Ushuaia 18: Telluride leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Telluride 93, Ushuaia 88: Telluride leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Telluride 30, Ushuaia 14: Telluride leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Telluride 45, Ushuaia 40: Telluride leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Telluride 66, Ushuaia 45: Telluride leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Telluride 25, Ushuaia 22: Telluride leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Telluride 7, Ushuaia 42: Ushuaia leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Telluride 35, Ushuaia 10: Telluride leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Telluride 45, Ushuaia 26: Telluride leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Telluride and Ushuaia.

Your match

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

Telluride
Best match
36match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on prices 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.

Telluride in July

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

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
8 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). Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTellurideUshuaia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation2,667 m23 m
Main airportMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureTellurideUshuaia
City population2,60782,615
People per km²1,3723,592
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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.