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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
The old Tampa Bay Hotel across the river, Tampa
TampaThe old Tampa Bay Hotel across the river

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tampa by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Tampa?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Tampa for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tampa’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, Tampa 70: Tampa leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Tampa 57: Tampa leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Tampa 42: Tampa leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Tampa 52: Tampa leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Tampa 55: Steamboat Springs leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Tampa 54: Tampa leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Tampa 78: Tampa leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Tampa 22: Steamboat Springs leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Tampa 40: Tampa leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Tampa 40: Tampa leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Tampa 47: Tampa leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Tampa 30: Steamboat Springs leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Tampa.

Your match

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

Steamboat Springs
35match

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

Tampa
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches 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

Tampa in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTampa
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,052 m30 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTampa
City population13,224384,959
People per km²503848
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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. 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.