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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Hanoi?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Hanoi for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Hanoi’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 and Hanoi are level on 6.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Hanoi 85: Hanoi leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Hanoi 72: Hanoi leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Hanoi 50: Hanoi leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Hanoi 52: Beaver Creek leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Hanoi 58: Hanoi leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Hanoi 35: Beaver Creek leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Hanoi 36: Beaver Creek leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Hanoi 50: Hanoi leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Hanoi 98: Hanoi leads by 93 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Hanoi 40: Hanoi leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Hanoi 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 Hanoi.

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.

Hanoi
Best match
52match

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

Hanoi in July

34 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
311 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekHanoi

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.

Hanoi's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Phu Lien.

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). Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekHanoi
Official language-Vietnamese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Dong (VND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation2,264 m10 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekHanoi
City population-8,717,600
People per km²-2,595
Museums within 10 km014
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.