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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Florence?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Florence leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Florence 74: Florence leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Florence 94: Florence leads by 87 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Florence 42: Florence leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Florence 58: Beaver Creek leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Florence 98: Florence leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Florence 45: Beaver Creek leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Florence 78: Florence leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Florence 72: Florence leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Florence 35: Florence leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Florence 58: Florence leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Florence 42: Beaver Creek leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Florence.

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 families with your weighting.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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.

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekFlorence
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m50 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekFlorence
City population-360,930
People per km²-3,528
Museums within 10 km0141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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. 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.