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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Aspen or Nashville?

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
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Aspen 40, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Nashville 46: Aspen leads by 49 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Aspen and Nashville are level on 55.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Nashville 30: Aspen leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Nashville 42: Aspen leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Nashville 30: Nashville leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Nashville 20: Aspen leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Nashville.

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 and getting around with your weighting.

Nashville
Best match
46match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
15 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
14 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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenNashville
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,405 m182 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenNashville
City population7,004689,447
People per km²700506
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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. 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.