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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Johannesburg by K, Pexels License.

Breckenridge or Johannesburg?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Johannesburg for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Johannesburg’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, Johannesburg 5: Johannesburg leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Johannesburg 56: Johannesburg leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Johannesburg 62: Johannesburg leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Johannesburg 55: Breckenridge leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Johannesburg 52: Johannesburg leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Johannesburg 42: Breckenridge leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Johannesburg 18: Breckenridge leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Johannesburg 72: Johannesburg leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Johannesburg 55: Johannesburg leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Johannesburg 28: Breckenridge leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Johannesburg.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Johannesburg
Best match
47match

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
15 hdaylight a day

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BreckenridgeJohannesburg

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). Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeJohannesburg
Official language-English, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,926 m1,753 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeJohannesburg
City population5,0784,803,262
People per km²3322,922
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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.