Photos: Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Varanasi by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.
Vail or Varanasi?
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 Vail for
- nature and the outdoors
- families
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’s own page.
Choose Varanasi for
- prices
- culture and sights
- food and drink
What lies behind each score is written up on Varanasi’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Vail and Varanasi.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Too close to call, 1 point apart
Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.
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.
Vail in July
Varanasi in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
Where the figures come from
Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.
Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.
Vail 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.
Varanasi 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.
Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre). Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.
Before you go
| Measure | Vail | Varanasi |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | - | Hindi, English |
| Currency | US Dollar (USD) | Indian Rupee (INR) |
| Sockets | AB120 V, 60 Hz | CM230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Left |
| Time zone | UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer | UTC+5:30 |
| Emergency number | 911 | 108 or 112 |
| Elevation | 2,445 m | 76 m |
| Main airport | Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations | Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 12 days | - |
By the numbers
| Measure | Vail | Varanasi |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 4,835 | 1,198,491 |
| People per km² | 400 | 14,598 |
| Museums within 10 km | 1 | 2 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 1 |
Where else could you go?
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