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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Krabi?

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
  • families

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Krabi 50: Krabi leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Krabi 20: Krabi leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Krabi 33: Krabi leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Krabi 85: Beaver Creek leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek and Krabi are level on 40.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Krabi 55: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Krabi 30: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Krabi 20: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 73 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Krabi 12: Beaver Creek leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Krabi.

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.

Krabi
Best match
49match

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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
30 °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.

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekKrabi
Official language-Thai
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation2,264 m16 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekKrabi
City population-30,499
Museums within 10 km00
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.