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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0.

Aspen or Florianopolis?

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

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Florianopolis for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Florianopolis’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, Florianopolis 85: Florianopolis leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Florianopolis 58: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Florianopolis 33: Florianopolis leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Aspen 40, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Florianopolis 78: Aspen leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Florianopolis 50: Florianopolis leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Florianopolis 28: Aspen leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Florianopolis 33: Aspen leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Florianopolis 28: Aspen leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Florianopolis 45: Aspen leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Florianopolis.

Your match

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

Aspen
43match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and prices 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenFlorianopolis
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation2,405 m3 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenFlorianopolis
City population7,004587,486
People per km²700870
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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. 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.