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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Dutch Reformed Church in Galle Fort, Galle
GalleThe Dutch Reformed Church in Galle Fort

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Galle by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Galle?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Galle for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Galle’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, Galle 80: Galle leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Galle 50: Galle leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Galle 55: Galle leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Galle 18: Galle leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Galle 66: Beaver Creek leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Galle 50: Galle leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Galle 42: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Galle 35: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Galle 33: Galle leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Galle 72: Galle leads by 67 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Galle 10: Beaver Creek leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Galle 70: Galle 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 Galle.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Galle
Best match
48match

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

Galle in July

28 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekGalle

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.

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

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekGalle
Official language-Tamil, Sinhala
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzGM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number911Police 119, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation2,264 m0 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)133 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekGalle
City population-93,118
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.