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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Florianopolis or Keystone?

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 Florianopolis for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Keystone for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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. Florianopolis 85, Keystone 5: Florianopolis leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Keystone 27: Florianopolis leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Keystone 7: Florianopolis leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Keystone 12: Florianopolis leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Keystone 55: Keystone leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Keystone 66: Keystone leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Keystone 50: Keystone leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Keystone 22: Florianopolis leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Keystone 12: Florianopolis leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Keystone 22: Florianopolis leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Keystone 32: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Keystone.

Your match

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

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

Wins on getting around and 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.

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisKeystone
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation3 m2,796 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisKeystone
City population587,4861,369
People per km²87013
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.