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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Budapest by Perituss, CC0.

Beaver Creek or Budapest?

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

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

Choose Budapest for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Budapest’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, Budapest 25: Budapest leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Budapest 63: Budapest leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Budapest 80: Budapest leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 66 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Budapest 58: Beaver Creek leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Budapest 68: Budapest leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek and Budapest are level on 62.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Budapest 55: Budapest leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Budapest 62: Budapest leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Budapest 76: Budapest leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Budapest 98: Budapest leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Budapest.

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 with your weighting.

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights 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
15 hdaylight a day

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 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). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekBudapest
Official language-Hungarian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Forint (HUF)
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 m117 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekBudapest
City population-1,675,777
People per km²-3,191
Museums within 10 km081
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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.