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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Breckenridge or St. Pete Beach?

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
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, St. Pete Beach 40: St. Pete Beach leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, St. Pete Beach 18: Breckenridge leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, St. Pete Beach 28: Breckenridge leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, St. Pete Beach 57: Breckenridge leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, St. Pete Beach 30: Breckenridge leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, St. Pete Beach 20: Breckenridge leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, St. Pete Beach 32: St. Pete Beach leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, St. Pete Beach 20: Breckenridge leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and St. Pete Beach.

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 getting around with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
Best match
42match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BreckenridgeSt. Pete Beach

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.

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeSt. Pete Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,926 m2 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeSt. Pete Beach
City population5,0788,879
People per km²332173
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.