VacationSelector
The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Beaver Creek for

  • families
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Arequipa 8, Beaver Creek 6: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Beaver Creek 38: Arequipa leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Beaver Creek 7: Arequipa leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Beaver Creek 12: Arequipa leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Beaver Creek 90: Beaver Creek leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Beaver Creek 40: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Beaver Creek 62: Beaver Creek leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Beaver Creek 45: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Beaver Creek 22: Arequipa leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Beaver Creek 5: Arequipa leads by 77 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Beaver Creek 36: Beaver Creek leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Beaver Creek 55: Beaver Creek leads by 21 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Beaver Creek.

Your match

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

Arequipa
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on families 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.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Beaver Creek in July

29 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

010203040JFMAMJJASOND
ArequipaBeaver Creek

Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Beaver Creek: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Eagle County / Gypsum (33.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaBeaver Creek
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation2,335 m2,264 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaBeaver Creek
City population1,008,290-
People per km²1,551-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Arequipa or Beaver Creek somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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). 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. 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.