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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Yokohama?

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 Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Yokohama 66: Steamboat Springs leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 74 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Yokohama 60: Steamboat Springs leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Yokohama.

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.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and food and drink 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Steamboat SpringsYokohama

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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsYokohama
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 m24 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 SpringsYokohama
City population13,2243,757,630
People per km²5038,585
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.