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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Laguna Beach?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Laguna Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’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, Laguna Beach 72: Laguna Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Laguna Beach 27: Laguna Beach leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Laguna Beach 18: Laguna Beach leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Laguna Beach 73: Beaver Creek leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Laguna Beach 72: Laguna Beach leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Laguna Beach 68: Laguna Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Laguna Beach 33: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Laguna Beach 46: Laguna Beach leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Laguna Beach 12: Laguna Beach leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Laguna Beach 47: Beaver Creek leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Laguna Beach.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Laguna Beach
Best match
46match

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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °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). Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekLaguna Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m6 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekLaguna Beach
City population-23,032
People per km²-907
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.