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Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Telluride or Warsaw?

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 Warsaw for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Warsaw leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Telluride 38, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Telluride 20, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Telluride 20, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Telluride 93, Warsaw 47: Telluride leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Telluride 30, Warsaw 52: Warsaw leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Telluride 45, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Telluride 66, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Telluride 25, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Telluride 7, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Telluride 35, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Telluride 45, Warsaw 35: Telluride leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Telluride and Warsaw.

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.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
16 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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTellurideWarsaw
Official language-Polish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,667 m118 m
Main airportMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTellurideWarsaw
City population2,6071,862,402
People per km²1,3723,601
Museums within 10 km0117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.