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El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Tulum or Winter Park, Colorado?

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 Tulum for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’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. Tulum 88, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Tulum leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Tulum 52, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Tulum leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Tulum 30, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Tulum leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Tulum 60, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Tulum leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tulum 76, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Tulum 68, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Tulum leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Tulum 60, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Tulum 25, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Tulum 35, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Tulum leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Tulum 30, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Tulum leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tulum 15, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Tulum leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tulum 85, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Tulum leads by 39 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tulum and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Tulum
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Tulum in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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TulumWinter Park, Colorado

Where the figures come from

Tulum has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado 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. Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTulumWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m2,759 m
Main airportFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureTulumWinter Park, Colorado
City population33,3741,033
People per km²-24
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.