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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Lima?

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
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Lima for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Lima leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Lima 88: Lima leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Lima 66: Lima leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Lima 62: Lima leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Lima 45: Beaver Creek leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Lima 34: Beaver Creek leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Lima 42: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Lima 35: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Lima 52: Lima leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Lima 70: Lima leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Lima 53: Lima leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Lima 25: Beaver Creek leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Lima.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation2,264 m154 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekLima
City population-9,943,800
People per km²-3,721
Museums within 10 km047
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 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.