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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Breckenridge or Salzburg?

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

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Salzburg 25: Breckenridge leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Salzburg 86: Breckenridge leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Salzburg 32: Salzburg leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeSalzburg
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
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 m424 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeSalzburg
City population5,078155,021
People per km²3322,360
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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.