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The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Paris 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 Paris for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Paris 9, Steamboat Springs 7: Paris leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Paris 96, Steamboat Springs 30: Paris leads by 66 points.
Culture & sights. Paris 97, Steamboat Springs 14: Paris leads by 83 points.
Nightlife. Paris 80, Steamboat Springs 20: Paris leads by 60 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paris 52, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Paris 92, Steamboat Springs 12: Paris leads by 80 points.
Good for families. Paris 79, Steamboat Springs 62: Paris leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Paris 88, Steamboat Springs 46: Paris leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Paris 98, Steamboat Springs 22: Paris leads by 76 points.
Affordability. Paris 25, Steamboat Springs 17: Paris leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paris 88, Steamboat Springs 28: Paris leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paris 40, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paris and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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.

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
16 hdaylight a day

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureParisSteamboat Springs
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation27 m2,052 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisSteamboat Springs
City population2,103,77813,224
People per km²19,960503
Museums within 10 km2510
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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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). 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.