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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or La Spezia?

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

  • wellness
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose La Spezia for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on La Spezia’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 Spezia 60: La Spezia leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, La Spezia 58: La Spezia leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, La Spezia 40: La Spezia leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, La Spezia 28: La Spezia leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, La Spezia 79: Beaver Creek leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, La Spezia 87: La Spezia leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, La Spezia 48: Beaver Creek leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, La Spezia 70: La Spezia leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, La Spezia 35: La Spezia leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, La Spezia 50: La Spezia leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, La Spezia 28: Beaver Creek leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, La Spezia 32: Beaver Creek leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and La Spezia.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

La Spezia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
20 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekLa Spezia

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 Spezia's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

La Spezia 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). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekLa Spezia
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m3 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekLa Spezia
City population-92,119
People per km²-1,792
Museums within 10 km012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.