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Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • getting around

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. Palm Beach 82, Steamboat Springs 7: Palm Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Steamboat Springs 30: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Steamboat Springs 14: Palm Beach leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Steamboat Springs 20: Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Steamboat Springs 12: Palm Beach leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach and Steamboat Springs are level on 62.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Steamboat Springs 22: Palm Beach leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Steamboat Springs 17: Steamboat Springs leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Steamboat Springs 28: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
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. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachSteamboat Springs
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m2,052 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachSteamboat Springs
City population9,24513,224
People per km²322503
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.