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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Bodrum?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Bodrum for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Bodrum’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, Bodrum 80: Bodrum leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Bodrum 60: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Bodrum 65: Bodrum leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Bodrum 60: Beaver Creek leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Bodrum 72: Bodrum leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Bodrum 66: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Bodrum 42: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Bodrum 38: Bodrum leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Bodrum 32: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Bodrum 52: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Bodrum.

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 and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Bodrum in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
14 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.

Bodrum's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kos Airport.

Bodrum 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). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekBodrum
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m10 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekBodrum
City population-175,000
People per km²-314
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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.