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The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Oslo 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 Oslo for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Oslo 36, Steamboat Springs 7: Oslo leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Oslo 55, Steamboat Springs 30: Oslo leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Oslo 66, Steamboat Springs 14: Oslo leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Oslo 48, Steamboat Springs 20: Oslo leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oslo 82, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Oslo 52, Steamboat Springs 12: Oslo leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Oslo 63, Steamboat Springs 62: Oslo leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Oslo 85, Steamboat Springs 46: Oslo leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Oslo 50, Steamboat Springs 22: Oslo leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Oslo 14, Steamboat Springs 17: Steamboat Springs leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oslo 62, Steamboat Springs 28: Oslo leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oslo 60, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oslo and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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.

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 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. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOsloSteamboat Springs
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi-
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation23 m2,052 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloSteamboat Springs
City population717,71013,224
People per km²-503
Museums within 10 km600
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.