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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Honolulu 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 Honolulu for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Keystone for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Honolulu 91, Keystone 5: Honolulu leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Keystone 27: Honolulu leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, Keystone 7: Honolulu leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Keystone 12: Honolulu leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Keystone 55: Keystone leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Keystone 66: Honolulu leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Keystone 50: Honolulu leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu 60, Keystone 22: Honolulu leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Keystone 12: Honolulu leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Keystone 22: Honolulu leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Keystone 32: Honolulu leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Keystone.

Your match

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

Honolulu
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

Wins on day trips 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.

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
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. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluKeystone
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-10UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m2,796 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluKeystone
City population350,9641,369
People per km²1,98113
Museums within 10 km120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.