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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Steamboat Springs?

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 Bangkok for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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. Bangkok 12, Steamboat Springs 7: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Steamboat Springs 30: Bangkok leads by 65 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Steamboat Springs 14: Bangkok leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Steamboat Springs 20: Bangkok leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 63 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Steamboat Springs 12: Bangkok leads by 60 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Steamboat Springs 46: Bangkok leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Steamboat Springs 22: Bangkok leads by 58 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Steamboat Springs 17: Bangkok leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Steamboat Springs 28: Bangkok leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Steamboat Springs 70: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Steamboat Springs 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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokSteamboat Springs
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m2,052 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSteamboat Springs
City population5,676,64813,224
People per km²3,619503
Museums within 10 km590
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.