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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Cologne?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Cologne for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Cologne’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, Cologne 14: Cologne leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Cologne 52: Cologne leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Cologne 67: Cologne leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Cologne 66: Cologne leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Cologne 56: Beaver Creek leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Cologne 80: Cologne leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Cologne 70: Cologne leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Cologne 74: Cologne leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Cologne 57: Cologne leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Cologne 46: Cologne leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Cologne 68: Cologne leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Cologne 50: Beaver Creek leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Cologne.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Cologne
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Cologne in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
81 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
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.

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). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekCologne
Official language-German
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m59 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekCologne
City population-1,025,523
People per km²-2,532
Museums within 10 km040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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. 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.