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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Hurghada?

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
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Hurghada for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Hurghada’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, Hurghada 84: Hurghada leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Hurghada 34: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Hurghada 14: Hurghada leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Hurghada 40: Hurghada leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Hurghada 72: Beaver Creek leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Hurghada 30: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek and Hurghada are level on 62.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Hurghada 22: Beaver Creek leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Hurghada 24: Hurghada leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Hurghada 80: Hurghada leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Hurghada 10: Beaver Creek leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Hurghada 44: Beaver Creek leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Hurghada.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Hurghada
Best match
43match

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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °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). Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekHurghada
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation2,264 m11 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekHurghada
City population-214,247
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.