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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Tirana?

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
  • families

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

Choose Tirana for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’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, Tirana 46: Tirana leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Tirana 57: Tirana leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Tirana 42: Tirana leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Tirana 58: Tirana leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Tirana 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Tirana 64: Tirana leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Tirana 40: Steamboat Springs leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Tirana 54: Tirana leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Tirana 76: Tirana leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Tirana 27: Steamboat Springs leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Tirana.

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.

Tirana
Best match
49match

Wins on prices 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

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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. Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTirana
Official language-Albanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,052 m110 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTirana
City population13,224389,323
People per km²5039,314
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.