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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or La Paz?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose La Paz for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on La Paz’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, La Paz 3: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, La Paz 50: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, La Paz 52: La Paz leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, La Paz 38: La Paz leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, La Paz 82: Beaver Creek leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek and La Paz are level on 40.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, La Paz 10: Beaver Creek leads by 52 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek and La Paz are level on 45.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 87 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, La Paz 35: Beaver Creek leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, La Paz 12: Beaver Creek leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and La Paz.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

La Paz
Best match
42match

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
15 hdaylight a day

La Paz in July

13 °Cdaytime high
-2 °Cnight-time low
16 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekLa Paz

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.

La Paz has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekLa Paz
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m3,640 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekLa Paz
City population-755,732
People per km²-1,601
Museums within 10 km021
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.