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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
MaastrichtSint Servaasbrug over the Maas

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Maastricht?

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 Maastricht for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Maastricht’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, Maastricht 8: Maastricht leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Maastricht 58: Maastricht leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Maastricht 42: Maastricht leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Maastricht 58: Beaver Creek leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Maastricht 77: Maastricht leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Maastricht 55: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Maastricht 74: Maastricht leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Maastricht 38: Maastricht leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Maastricht 40: Maastricht leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Maastricht 52: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Maastricht.

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.

Maastricht
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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
15 hdaylight a day

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekMaastricht
Official language-Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m49 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekMaastricht
City population-120,227
People per km²-2,000
Museums within 10 km021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05

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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. 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.