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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Tangier?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Tangier for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Tangier 30: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Tangier 55: Steamboat Springs leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 60 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Tangier 35: Steamboat Springs leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Tangier 40: Steamboat Springs leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs and Tangier are level on 28.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Tangier 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 Tangier.

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 families with your weighting.

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and prices 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTangier
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation2,052 m56 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTangier
City population13,2241,275,428
People per km²5036,393
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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.