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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License.

Aspen or Berlin?

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 Aspen for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Berlin for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Berlin’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. Aspen 6, Berlin 38: Berlin leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Berlin 66: Berlin leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Berlin 86: Berlin leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Aspen 40, Berlin 98: Berlin leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Berlin 50: Aspen leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Berlin 66: Berlin leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Berlin 76: Berlin leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Berlin 82: Berlin leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Berlin 68: Berlin leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Berlin 48: Berlin leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Berlin 90: Berlin leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Berlin 55: Berlin leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Berlin.

Your match

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

Aspen
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Aspen in July

27 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
33 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AspenBerlin

Where the figures come from

Aspen 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. Aspen: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Aspen / Woody Creek (5.2 km from centre). Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenBerlin
Official language-German
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,405 m34 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenBerlin
City population7,0043,700,577
People per km²7004,153
Museums within 10 km2157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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.