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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Toledo?

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 Toledo for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’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, Toledo 5: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Toledo 40: Toledo leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Toledo 22: Toledo leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Toledo 40: Steamboat Springs leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 66 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Toledo 45: Steamboat Springs leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Toledo 64: Toledo leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Toledo 32: Toledo leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Toledo 58: Toledo leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Toledo 22: Steamboat Springs leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Toledo 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 Toledo.

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.

Toledo
Best match
43match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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
15 hdaylight a day

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsToledo
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,052 m523 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsToledo
City population13,22487,216
People per km²503376
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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. 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.