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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Bled?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Bled for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Bled’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, Bled 50: Bled leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Bled 20: Beaver Creek leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Bled 22: Bled leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Bled 5: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Bled 86: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Bled 70: Bled leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Bled 60: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Bled 58: Bled leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Bled 5: Beaver Creek leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Bled 45: Bled leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Bled 5: Beaver Creek leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek and Bled 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 Bled.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Bled
Best match
40match

Wins on beaches 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

Bled in July

27 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
154 mmrain in the month
8 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.

Bled's temperatures are measured 36 km from the centre, at Klagenfurt.

Bled 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). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekBled
Official language-Slovene
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 m501 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekBled
City population-4,969
People per km²-26
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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. 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.