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The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

St. Pete 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 St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete 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. St. Pete Beach 87, Steamboat Springs 7: St. Pete Beach leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. St. Pete Beach 40, Steamboat Springs 30: St. Pete Beach leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. St. Pete Beach 18, Steamboat Springs 14: St. Pete Beach leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. St. Pete Beach 28, Steamboat Springs 20: St. Pete Beach leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. St. Pete Beach 57, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 31 points.
Day trips. St. Pete Beach 58, Steamboat Springs 12: St. Pete Beach leads by 46 points.
Good for families. St. Pete Beach 72, Steamboat Springs 62: St. Pete Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. St. Pete Beach 30, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. St. Pete Beach 20, Steamboat Springs 22: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Affordability. St. Pete Beach 32, Steamboat Springs 17: St. Pete Beach leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. St. Pete Beach 20, Steamboat Springs 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. St. Pete Beach 42, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: St. Pete Beach and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

St. Pete Beach
Best match
42match

Wins on beaches 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.

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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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St. Pete BeachSteamboat Springs

Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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. St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSt. Pete 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 airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSt. Pete BeachSteamboat Springs
City population8,87913,224
People per km²173503
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.