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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
The Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
ZagrebThe Croatian National Theatre

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Zagreb by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs or Zagreb?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Zagreb for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Zagreb’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, Zagreb 10: Zagreb leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Zagreb 55: Zagreb leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Zagreb 56: Zagreb leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Zagreb 47: Zagreb leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Zagreb 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Zagreb 60: Zagreb leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Zagreb 52: Steamboat Springs leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Zagreb 70: Zagreb leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Zagreb 40: Zagreb leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Zagreb 60: Zagreb leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Zagreb 52: Zagreb leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Zagreb 33: Steamboat Springs leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Zagreb.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Zagreb
Best match
50match

Wins on day trips and prices 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

Zagreb in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
9 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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsZagreb
Official language-Croatian
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 m127 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsZagreb
City population13,224767,131
People per km²503-
Museums within 10 km027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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.