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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hobart 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 Hobart for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • families
  • 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. Hobart 30, Steamboat Springs 7: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Steamboat Springs 30: Hobart leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Steamboat Springs 14: Hobart leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Steamboat Springs 20: Hobart leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Steamboat Springs 12: Hobart leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, Steamboat Springs 22: Hobart leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Steamboat Springs 17: Hobart leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Steamboat Springs 28: Hobart leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Hobart
Best match
48match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness and families 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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 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

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. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHobartSteamboat Springs
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 m2,052 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartSteamboat Springs
City population197,45113,224
People per km²116503
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.