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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Keystone or Salzburg?

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 Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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. Keystone 5, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, Salzburg 25: Salzburg leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, Salzburg 86: Keystone leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Keystone 55, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Keystone 66, Salzburg 65: Keystone leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone 22, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Keystone 12, Salzburg 32: Salzburg leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone 32, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Keystone in July

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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 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. Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystoneSalzburg
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,796 m424 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKeystoneSalzburg
City population1,369155,021
People per km²132,360
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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