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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • 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. Lisbon 50, Steamboat Springs 7: Lisbon leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Steamboat Springs 30: Lisbon leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Steamboat Springs 14: Lisbon leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Steamboat Springs 20: Lisbon leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Steamboat Springs 12: Lisbon leads by 70 points.
Good for families. Lisbon and Steamboat Springs are level on 62.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Steamboat Springs 46: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Steamboat Springs 22: Lisbon leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Steamboat Springs 17: Lisbon leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Steamboat Springs 28: Lisbon leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

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

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness 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.

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonSteamboat Springs
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m2,052 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonSteamboat Springs
City population545,79613,224
People per km²5,453503
Museums within 10 km800
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.