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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Bergen?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Bergen for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Bergen’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 6, Bergen 20: Bergen leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Bergen 47: Bergen leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Bergen 55: Bergen leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Bergen 40: Bergen leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Bergen 88: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Bergen 38: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Bergen 60: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Bergen 74: Bergen leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Bergen 33: Bergen leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Bergen 12: Bergen leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Bergen 58: Bergen leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Bergen 32: Beaver Creek leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Bergen.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

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

Bergen
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
15 °Csea
18 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). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekBergen
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation2,264 m5 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekBergen
City population-291,189
People per km²-3,339
Museums within 10 km031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.