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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Clearwater?

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
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’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, Clearwater 90: Clearwater leads by 84 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek and Clearwater are level on 38.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Clearwater 18: Clearwater leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Clearwater 34: Clearwater leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Clearwater 55: Beaver Creek leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Clearwater 58: Clearwater leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Clearwater 78: Clearwater leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Clearwater 28: Beaver Creek leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Clearwater 27: Clearwater leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Clearwater 35: Clearwater leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek and Clearwater are level on 36.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Clearwater 40: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Clearwater.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Clearwater
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches 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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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.

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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). Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekClearwater
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m9 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekClearwater
City population-117,292
People per km²-1,154
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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.