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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Dubrovnik?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’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, Dubrovnik 74: Dubrovnik leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Dubrovnik 47: Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Dubrovnik 37: Dubrovnik leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Dubrovnik 70: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Dubrovnik 66: Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Dubrovnik 50: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Dubrovnik 60: Dubrovnik leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Dubrovnik 25: Dubrovnik leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Dubrovnik 28: Dubrovnik leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Dubrovnik 25: Beaver Creek leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Dubrovnik 32: Beaver Creek leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Dubrovnik.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
Best match
49match

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

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 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.

Dubrovnik 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.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

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). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekDubrovnik
Official language-Croatian
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 m10 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekDubrovnik
City population-41,562
Museums within 10 km07
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.