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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or El Nido?

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

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose El Nido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on El Nido’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, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, El Nido 27: Beaver Creek leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, El Nido 4: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, El Nido 30: El Nido leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, El Nido 87: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, El Nido 8: Beaver Creek leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, El Nido 40: Beaver Creek leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, El Nido 22: Beaver Creek leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, El Nido 7: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, El Nido 7: Beaver Creek leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, El Nido 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 El Nido.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

El Nido
36match

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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

El Nido in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
368 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekEl Nido

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.

El Nido has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekEl Nido
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m35 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekEl Nido
City population-51,367
People per km²-56
Museums within 10 km00
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.