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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Budapest or Steamboat Springs?

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 Budapest for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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. Budapest 25, Steamboat Springs 7: Budapest leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Steamboat Springs 30: Budapest leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Steamboat Springs 14: Budapest leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Steamboat Springs 20: Budapest leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Steamboat Springs 12: Budapest leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Budapest and Steamboat Springs are level on 62.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Steamboat Springs 46: Budapest leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Steamboat Springs 22: Budapest leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Steamboat Springs 17: Budapest leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Steamboat Springs 28: Budapest leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Steamboat Springs 70: Budapest leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BudapestSteamboat Springs

Where the figures come from

Steamboat Springs 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestSteamboat Springs
Official languageHungarian-
CurrencyForint (HUF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation117 m2,052 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestSteamboat Springs
City population1,675,77713,224
People per km²3,191503
Museums within 10 km810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.