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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Steamboat Springs or Valencia?

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

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Valencia 60: Steamboat Springs leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Valencia 42: Steamboat Springs leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Valencia.

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.

Valencia
Best match
65match

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Steamboat SpringsValencia

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsValencia
City population13,224840,792
People per km²5036,242
Museums within 10 km045
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.