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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Vienna?

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 Vienna for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 75 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Vienna 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Vienna 58: Steamboat Springs leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Vienna.

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.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsVienna
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsVienna
City population13,2242,028,289
People per km²5034,890
Museums within 10 km0152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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.