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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
The glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden, St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg, FloridaThe glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; St. Petersburg, Florida by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Keystone or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Keystone leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Keystone and St. Petersburg, Florida are level on 55.
Good for families. Keystone 66, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Keystone leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone 22, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Keystone 12, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone 32, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and St. Petersburg, Florida.

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 getting around with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KeystoneSt. Petersburg, Florida

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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystoneSt. Petersburg, Florida
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,796 m134 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKeystoneSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population1,369258,308
People per km²13725
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.