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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Luxor?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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 and Luxor are level on 6.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Luxor 30: Beaver Creek leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 88 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Luxor 10: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Luxor 32: Beaver Creek leads by 58 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Luxor 30: Beaver Creek leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Luxor 35: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Luxor 25: Luxor leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 85 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Luxor 10: Beaver Creek leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Luxor 28: Beaver Creek leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Luxor.

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 families with your weighting.

Luxor
Best match
38match

Wins on culture and sights 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
15 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
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.

Luxor 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). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekLuxor
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation2,264 m89 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekLuxor
City population-202,232
People per km²-486
Museums within 10 km04
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. 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.