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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Hiroshima?

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 Hiroshima for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Hiroshima 62: Beaver Creek leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Hiroshima 60: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Hiroshima 50: Beaver Creek leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Hiroshima.

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.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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.

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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekHiroshima
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,264 m3 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekHiroshima
City population-1,198,021
People per km²-1,324
Museums within 10 km018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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.