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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Beaver Creek?

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 Adelaide for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Beaver Creek for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Beaver Creek’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. Adelaide 68, Beaver Creek 6: Adelaide leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Beaver Creek 38: Adelaide leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Beaver Creek 7: Adelaide leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Beaver Creek 12: Adelaide leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Beaver Creek 90: Beaver Creek leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Beaver Creek 40: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Beaver Creek 62: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Beaver Creek 45: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Beaver Creek 22: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Beaver Creek 5: Adelaide leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Beaver Creek 36: Adelaide leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Beaver Creek 55: Beaver Creek leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Beaver Creek.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Beaver Creek
35match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Beaver Creek in July

29 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Beaver Creek's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Eagle County / Gypsum.

Beaver Creek's station stands 268 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Beaver Creek 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. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Beaver Creek: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Eagle County / Gypsum (33.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideBeaver Creek
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m2,264 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideBeaver Creek
City population1,387,290-
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.