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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Edinburgh?

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

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

Choose Edinburgh for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Edinburgh’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, Edinburgh 22: Edinburgh leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Edinburgh 53: Edinburgh leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Edinburgh 75: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek and Edinburgh are level on 62.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Edinburgh 74: Edinburgh leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Edinburgh 30: Edinburgh leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Edinburgh 72: Edinburgh leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Edinburgh 34: Beaver Creek leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Edinburgh.

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.

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekEdinburgh

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.

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

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). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekEdinburgh
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation2,264 m47 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekEdinburgh
City population-488,050
People per km²-1,884
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.