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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Amman or Steamboat Springs?

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 Amman for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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. Amman 22, Steamboat Springs 7: Amman leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Steamboat Springs 30: Amman leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Steamboat Springs 14: Amman leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Steamboat Springs 20: Amman leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Steamboat Springs 12: Amman leads by 68 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Steamboat Springs 22: Amman leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Steamboat Springs 17: Amman leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Steamboat Springs 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Amman
Best match
45match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Steamboat Springs 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. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanSteamboat Springs
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m2,052 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanSteamboat Springs
City population4,007,52613,224
People per km²2,385503
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.