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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Catania?

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
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Catania for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Catania’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, Catania 72: Catania leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Catania 77: Catania leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Catania 62: Catania leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Catania 60: Catania leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Catania 83: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Catania 84: Catania leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Catania 50: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Catania 48: Catania leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Catania 42: Catania leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Catania 60: Catania leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Catania 55: Catania leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Catania 30: Beaver Creek leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Catania.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches 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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekCatania
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m7 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekCatania
City population-311,584
People per km²-1,704
Museums within 10 km025
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.