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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
KathmanduSwayambhunath with its prayer flags

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Kathmandu by Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Kathmandu?

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

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Kathmandu for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Kathmandu’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, Kathmandu 4: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Kathmandu 55: Kathmandu leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Kathmandu 82: Kathmandu leads by 75 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Kathmandu 36: Kathmandu leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Kathmandu 70: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Kathmandu 56: Kathmandu leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Kathmandu 20: Beaver Creek leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Kathmandu 25: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Kathmandu 55: Kathmandu leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Kathmandu 97: Kathmandu leads by 92 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Kathmandu 28: Beaver Creek leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Kathmandu 45: Beaver Creek 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 Kathmandu.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Kathmandu
Best match
48match

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

Kathmandu in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
384 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekKathmandu

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). Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekKathmandu
Official language-Nepali
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+5:45
Emergency number911Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation2,264 m1,300 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekKathmandu
City population-845,767
People per km²-17,121
Museums within 10 km09
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.