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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Lion's Head above Clifton Beach, Cape Town
Cape TownLion's Head above Clifton Beach

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Cape Town by Stephan Louis, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Cape Town?

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

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Cape Town for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Cape Town’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, Cape Town 58: Cape Town leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Cape Town 72: Cape Town leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Cape Town 60: Cape Town leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Cape Town 60: Cape Town leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Cape Town 98: Cape Town leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Cape Town 68: Cape Town leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Cape Town 58: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Cape Town 35: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Cape Town 50: Cape Town leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Cape Town 72: Cape Town leads by 67 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Cape Town 52: Cape Town leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Cape Town 45: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Cape Town.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

Cape Town
Best match
61match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Cape Town in July

18 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
89 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
10 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). Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekCape Town
Official language-English, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m5 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekCape Town
City population-3,776,313
People per km²-1,538
Museums within 10 km022
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.