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Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Telluride or Valencia?

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

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Telluride 38, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Telluride 20, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Telluride 20, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Telluride 93, Valencia 60: Telluride leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Telluride 30, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Telluride 45, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Telluride 66, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Telluride 25, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Telluride 7, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Telluride 35, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Telluride 45, Valencia 42: Telluride leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Telluride and Valencia.

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.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches 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.

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTellurideValencia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,667 m15 m
Main airportMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTellurideValencia
City population2,607840,792
People per km²1,3726,242
Museums within 10 km045
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.