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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Cardiff?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Cardiff for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’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, Cardiff 30: Cardiff leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Cardiff 45: Cardiff leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Cardiff 58: Cardiff leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Cardiff 70: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Cardiff 72: Cardiff leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Cardiff 58: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Cardiff 66: Cardiff leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Cardiff 46: Cardiff leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Cardiff 57: Cardiff leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Cardiff 27: Beaver Creek leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Cardiff.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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.

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

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). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekCardiff
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation2,264 m41 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekCardiff
City population-383,536
People per km²-2,734
Museums within 10 km09
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.