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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Burj Al Arab, Dubai
DubaiThe Burj Al Arab

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Dubai by Aleksandar Pasaric, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Dubai?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Dubai for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubai’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, Dubai 80: Dubai leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Dubai 76: Dubai leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Dubai 40: Dubai leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Dubai 62: Dubai leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Dubai 25: Beaver Creek leads by 65 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Dubai 45: Dubai leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Dubai 82: Dubai leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Dubai 42: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Dubai 82: Dubai leads by 60 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Dubai 32: Dubai leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Dubai 40: Dubai leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Dubai 46: Beaver Creek leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Dubai.

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.

Dubai
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Dubai in July

42 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
33 °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.

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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekDubai
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m0 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre294 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekDubai
City population-3,944,751
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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.