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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
The Limmat from Quaibrücke, Zurich
ZurichThe Limmat from Quaibrücke

Photos: Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Zurich by Daniel Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Winter Park, Colorado or Zurich?

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 Winter Park, Colorado for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’s own page.

Choose Zurich for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Zurich’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. Winter Park, Colorado 5, Zurich 45: Zurich leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Winter Park, Colorado 24, Zurich 53: Zurich leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Winter Park, Colorado 6, Zurich 58: Zurich leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Winter Park, Colorado 15, Zurich 62: Zurich leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Winter Park, Colorado 88, Zurich 80: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Winter Park, Colorado 38, Zurich 84: Zurich leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Winter Park, Colorado 62, Zurich 76: Zurich leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Winter Park, Colorado 42, Zurich 95: Zurich leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Winter Park, Colorado 12, Zurich 66: Zurich leads by 54 points.
Affordability. Winter Park, Colorado 25, Zurich 3: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Winter Park, Colorado 12, Zurich 70: Zurich leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Winter Park, Colorado 46, Zurich 58: Zurich leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Winter Park, Colorado and Zurich.

Your match

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

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

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

Zurich
Best match
63match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Winter Park, Colorado in July

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

Zurich in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
7 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

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. Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureWinter Park, ColoradoZurich
Official language-French, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,759 m408 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureWinter Park, ColoradoZurich
City population1,033440,935
People per km²245,016
Museums within 10 km063
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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.