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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Ghent?

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
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Ghent for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’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, Ghent 25: Ghent leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Ghent 62: Ghent leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Ghent 72: Ghent leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Ghent 55: Ghent leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Ghent 35: Beaver Creek leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Ghent 88: Ghent leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Ghent 50: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Ghent 78: Ghent leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Ghent 50: Ghent leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Ghent 38: Ghent leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Ghent 60: Ghent leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Ghent 33: Beaver Creek leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Ghent.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Ghent
Best match
54match

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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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.

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekGhent
Official language-French, German, Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m12 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekGhent
City population-272,657
People per km²-1,728
Museums within 10 km030
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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. 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.