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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Fes?

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

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Fes for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Fes’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, Fes 5: Beaver Creek leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Fes 62: Fes leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Fes 80: Fes leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek and Fes are level on 12.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Fes 52: Beaver Creek leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Fes 62: Fes leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Fes 22: Beaver Creek leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Fes 40: Beaver Creek leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Fes 68: Fes leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Fes 80: Fes leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Fes 32: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Fes 70: Fes leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Fes.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

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

Fes
Best match
49match

Wins on prices 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
15 hdaylight a day

Fes in July

36 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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.

Fes's station stands 171 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Fes 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.

Fes's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Meknes.

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). Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekFes
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation2,264 m408 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekFes
City population-1,167,842
People per km²-3,650
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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. 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.