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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Liverpool 22, Steamboat Springs 7: Liverpool leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Steamboat Springs 30: Liverpool leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Steamboat Springs 14: Liverpool leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Steamboat Springs 20: Liverpool leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Steamboat Springs 12: Liverpool leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Steamboat Springs 46: Liverpool leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Steamboat Springs 22: Liverpool leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Steamboat Springs 17: Liverpool leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Steamboat Springs 28: Liverpool leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 48 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Liverpool
Best match
52match

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.

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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.

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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolSteamboat Springs
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation70 m2,052 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolSteamboat Springs
City population513,44113,224
People per km²4,592503
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.