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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Beijing?

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 Beaver Creek for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’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. Beaver Creek and Beijing are level on 6.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Beijing 81: Beijing leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Beijing 93: Beijing leads by 86 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Beijing 58: Beijing leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Beijing 60: Beaver Creek leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Beijing 85: Beijing leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Beijing 64: Beijing leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Beijing 69: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Beijing 72: Beijing leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek and Beijing are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Beijing.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Beaver Creek in July

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

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 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

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. Beaver Creek: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Eagle County / Gypsum (33.8 km from centre). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekBeijing
Official language-Putonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation2,264 m43 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekBeijing
City population-21,893,095
People per km²-1,334
Museums within 10 km083
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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. 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.