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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Arequipa 8, Steamboat Springs 7: Arequipa leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Steamboat Springs 30: Arequipa leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Steamboat Springs 14: Arequipa leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Steamboat Springs 20: Arequipa leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Steamboat Springs 12: Arequipa leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Steamboat Springs 46: Arequipa leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Steamboat Springs 22: Arequipa leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Steamboat Springs 17: Arequipa leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Steamboat Springs 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Arequipa
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness 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.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaSteamboat Springs
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation2,335 m2,052 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaSteamboat Springs
City population1,008,29013,224
People per km²1,551503
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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). 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. 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.