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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Breckenridge or Samarkand?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Samarkand for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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 and Samarkand are level on 4.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Samarkand 54: Samarkand leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Samarkand 14: Breckenridge leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Samarkand 40: Breckenridge leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Samarkand 30: Breckenridge leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Samarkand 58: Breckenridge leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Samarkand 42: Samarkand leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Samarkand 24: Breckenridge leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Samarkand 32: Samarkand leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Samarkand.

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.

Samarkand
Best match
45match

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

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
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.

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). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeSamarkand
Official language-Uzbek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+5
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,926 m702 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeSamarkand
City population5,078546,303
People per km²3325,058
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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.