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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

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

Beaver Creek or Chengdu?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Chengdu for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’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, Chengdu 5: Beaver Creek leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Chengdu 60: Chengdu leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Chengdu 68: Beaver Creek leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Chengdu 65: Chengdu leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Chengdu 50: Chengdu leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Chengdu.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on prices 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

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 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). Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekChengdu
Official language-Putonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation2,264 m500 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekChengdu
City population-20,937,757
People per km²-1,456
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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. 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.