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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Tallinn?

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 Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Tallinn for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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. Steamboat Springs 7, Tallinn 28: Tallinn leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Tallinn 55: Steamboat Springs leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Tallinn 60: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Tallinn 40: Tallinn leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Tallinn 50: Steamboat Springs leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Tallinn.

Your match

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

Steamboat Springs
35match

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

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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. Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTallinn
Official language-Estonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,052 m28 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTallinn
City population13,224457,572
People per km²5032,871
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.