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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane
BrisbaneThe Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Brisbane by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Brisbane?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Brisbane for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Brisbane’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, Brisbane 55: Brisbane leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Brisbane 60: Brisbane leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Brisbane 42: Brisbane leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Brisbane 55: Brisbane leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Brisbane 74: Beaver Creek leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Brisbane 50: Brisbane leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Brisbane 78: Brisbane leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Brisbane 62: Brisbane leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Brisbane 45: Brisbane leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Brisbane 33: Brisbane leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Brisbane 55: Brisbane leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Brisbane 40: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Brisbane.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Brisbane
Best match
54match

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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Brisbane in July

22 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
11 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). Brisbane: 1991-2020 normals, Brisbane (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekBrisbane
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+10
Emergency number911000
Elevation2,264 m0 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsBrisbane International Airport (BNE)13 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekBrisbane
City population-2,706,966
People per km²-171
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-9 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. 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.