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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License.

Breckenridge or Macau?

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
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Macau for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Macau’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, Macau 24: Macau leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Macau 77: Macau leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Macau 62: Macau leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Macau 40: Macau leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Macau 5: Breckenridge leads by 85 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Macau 52: Macau leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Macau 48: Breckenridge leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Macau 60: Breckenridge leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Macau 58: Macau leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Macau 44: Macau leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Macau 36: Macau leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Macau 40: Macau leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Macau.

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 and families with your weighting.

Macau
Best match
46match

Wins on food and drink 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

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BreckenridgeMacau

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). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeMacau
Official language-Portuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation2,926 m22 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeMacau
City population5,078682,100
People per km²3325,916
Museums within 10 km028
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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.