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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Guggenheim Museum on the river, Bilbao
BilbaoThe Guggenheim Museum on the river

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Bilbao by José Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Bilbao?

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
  • families

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

Choose Bilbao for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Bilbao’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, Bilbao 45: Bilbao leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Bilbao 81: Bilbao leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Bilbao 62: Bilbao leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Bilbao 54: Bilbao leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Bilbao 75: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Bilbao 78: Bilbao leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Bilbao 55: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Bilbao 79: Bilbao leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Bilbao 47: Bilbao leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Bilbao 44: Bilbao leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Bilbao 53: Bilbao leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Bilbao 33: Beaver Creek leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Bilbao.

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.

Bilbao
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Bilbao in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
54 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
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). Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekBilbao
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m19 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekBilbao
City population-351,124
People per km²-8,440
Museums within 10 km017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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.