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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Aspen or Innsbruck?

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

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Innsbruck for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Innsbruck’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, Innsbruck 20: Innsbruck leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Innsbruck 40: Aspen leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Innsbruck 58: Innsbruck leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Aspen 40, Innsbruck 38: Aspen leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Innsbruck 96: Innsbruck leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Innsbruck 72: Innsbruck leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Innsbruck 62: Innsbruck leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Innsbruck 78: Innsbruck leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Innsbruck 38: Aspen leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Innsbruck 38: Innsbruck leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Innsbruck 45: Aspen leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Innsbruck 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 Innsbruck.

Your match

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

Aspen
43match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Innsbruck
Best match
53match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 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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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). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenInnsbruck
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
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 m574 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenInnsbruck
City population7,004132,499
People per km²7001,263
Museums within 10 km228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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.