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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Hoi An?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Hoi An for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Hoi An’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, Hoi An 72: Hoi An leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Hoi An 68: Hoi An leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Hoi An 66: Hoi An leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Hoi An 28: Hoi An leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Hoi An 63: Beaver Creek leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Hoi An 50: Hoi An leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Hoi An 58: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Hoi An 48: Hoi An leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Hoi An 57: Hoi An leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Hoi An 88: Hoi An leads by 83 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Hoi An 24: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Hoi An 65: Hoi An leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Hoi An.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on prices and beaches 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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekHoi An
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 m13 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekHoi An
City population-121,716
Museums within 10 km05
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. 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.