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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Budapest by Perituss, CC0.

Breckenridge or Budapest?

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 Breckenridge for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Budapest for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Budapest’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. Breckenridge 4, Budapest 25: Budapest leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Budapest 63: Budapest leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Budapest 80: Budapest leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Budapest 58: Breckenridge leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Budapest 68: Budapest leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Budapest 62: Budapest leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Budapest 55: Budapest leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Budapest 62: Budapest leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Budapest 76: Budapest leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Budapest 98: Budapest leads by 68 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Budapest.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on wellness 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.

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BreckenridgeBudapest

Where the figures come from

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeBudapest
Official language-Hungarian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Forint (HUF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,926 m117 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeBudapest
City population5,0781,675,777
People per km²3323,191
Museums within 10 km081
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.