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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Breckenridge or Rome?

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 Rome for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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, Rome 50: Rome leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Rome 82: Rome leads by 49 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Rome 99: Rome leads by 79 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Rome 58: Rome leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Rome 58: Breckenridge leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Rome 92: Rome leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Rome 50: Breckenridge leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Rome 60: Breckenridge leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Rome 72: Rome leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Rome 38: Rome leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Rome 68: Rome leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Rome 40: Rome leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Rome.

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.

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

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.

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

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). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeRome
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,926 m21 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeRome
City population5,0782,748,109
People per km²3322,135
Museums within 10 km0178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.