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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Breckenridge or Hiroshima?

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 Hiroshima for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Hiroshima 62: Breckenridge leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge and Hiroshima are level on 60.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Hiroshima.

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.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on prices 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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

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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeHiroshima
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,926 m3 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeHiroshima
City population5,0781,198,021
People per km²3321,324
Museums within 10 km018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.