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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Keystone or Ushuaia?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: Keystone leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, Ushuaia 40: Ushuaia leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, Ushuaia 22: Ushuaia leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, Ushuaia 18: Ushuaia leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, Ushuaia 88: Keystone leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Keystone 55, Ushuaia 14: Keystone leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Keystone 66, Ushuaia 40: Keystone leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, Ushuaia 45: Keystone leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone and Ushuaia are level on 22.
Affordability. Keystone 12, Ushuaia 42: Ushuaia leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, Ushuaia 10: Keystone leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone 32, Ushuaia 26: Keystone leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and Ushuaia.

Your match

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

Keystone
Best match
34match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on prices 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
15 hdaylight a day

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
8 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). Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystoneUshuaia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation2,796 m23 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKeystoneUshuaia
City population1,36982,615
People per km²133,592
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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. 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.