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Neues Schloss with magnolias in bloom, Stuttgart
StuttgartNeues Schloss with magnolias in bloom
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Stuttgart by Baden de, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Stuttgart or Vail?

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 Stuttgart for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Vail for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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. Stuttgart 8, Vail 5: Stuttgart leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Stuttgart 58, Vail 35: Stuttgart leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Stuttgart 62, Vail 10: Stuttgart leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Stuttgart 42, Vail 30: Stuttgart leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Stuttgart 60, Vail 92: Vail leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Stuttgart 80, Vail 45: Stuttgart leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Stuttgart 66, Vail 55: Stuttgart leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Stuttgart 72, Vail 62: Stuttgart leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Stuttgart 58, Vail 35: Stuttgart leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Stuttgart 40, Vail 5: Stuttgart leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Stuttgart 74, Vail 42: Stuttgart leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Stuttgart 64, Vail 48: Stuttgart leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Stuttgart and Vail.

Your match

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

Stuttgart
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Vail
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Stuttgart in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
79 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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. Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStuttgartVail
Official languageGerman-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation245 m2,445 m
Main airportStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureStuttgartVail
City population609,3654,835
People per km²2,938400
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.