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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 68 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 70 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 66 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Tokyo 68: Steamboat Springs leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 73 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 77 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Tokyo.

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 with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Steamboat SpringsTokyo

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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTokyo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,052 m6 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsTokyo
City population13,22414,264,798
People per km²5036,501
Museums within 10 km0192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.