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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
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Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Beaver Creek for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Bangkok 12, Beaver Creek 6: Bangkok leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Beaver Creek 38: Bangkok leads by 57 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Beaver Creek 7: Bangkok leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Beaver Creek 12: Bangkok leads by 73 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Beaver Creek 90: Beaver Creek leads by 65 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Beaver Creek 40: Bangkok leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Beaver Creek 62: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Beaver Creek 45: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Beaver Creek 22: Bangkok leads by 58 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Beaver Creek 5: Bangkok leads by 80 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Beaver Creek 36: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Beaver Creek 55: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Beaver Creek.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Beaver Creek
35match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Beaver Creek: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Eagle County / Gypsum (33.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokBeaver Creek
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m2,264 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBeaver Creek
City population5,676,648-
People per km²3,619-
Museums within 10 km590
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.