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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hobart 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 Hobart for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • beaches

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

Choose Keystone for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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. Hobart 30, Keystone 5: Hobart leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Keystone 27: Hobart leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Keystone 7: Hobart leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Keystone 12: Hobart leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Keystone 55: Hobart leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Keystone 66: Keystone leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Keystone 50: Keystone leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, Keystone 22: Hobart leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Keystone 12: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Keystone 22: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, Keystone 32: Hobart leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Keystone.

Your match

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

Hobart
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

Wins on families 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.

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 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. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHobartKeystone
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation54 m2,796 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartKeystone
City population197,4511,369
People per km²11613
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.