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The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Vail or Venice?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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. Vail 5, Venice 56: Venice leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Vail 35, Venice 60: Venice leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Vail 10, Venice 94: Venice leads by 84 points.
Nightlife. Vail 30, Venice 27: Vail leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Vail 92, Venice 45: Vail leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Vail 45, Venice 86: Venice leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Vail 55, Venice 45: Vail leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Vail 62, Venice 68: Venice leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Vail 35, Venice 57: Venice leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Vail 5, Venice 20: Venice leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Vail 42, Venice 62: Venice leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Vail 48, Venice 40: Vail leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Vail and Venice.

Your match

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

Vail
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 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

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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVailVenice
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,445 m2 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureVailVenice
City population4,835250,369
People per km²400602
Museums within 10 km152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.