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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Aspen or Hobart?

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
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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

Choose Hobart for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Hobart leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Aspen 40, Hobart 30: Aspen leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Hobart 85: Aspen leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Hobart 45: Aspen leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Hobart 38: Aspen leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Hobart 35: Hobart leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Hobart 45: Aspen leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Hobart 40: Aspen leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Hobart.

Your match

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

Aspen
43match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Hobart
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 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). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenHobart
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation2,405 m54 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenHobart
City population7,004197,451
People per km²700116
Museums within 10 km28
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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.