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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens, Marrakech
MarrakechThe Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Marrakech by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Marrakech?

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

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Marrakech for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Marrakech’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, Marrakech 7: Marrakech leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Marrakech 64: Marrakech leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Marrakech 76: Marrakech leads by 69 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Marrakech 33: Marrakech leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Marrakech 70: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Marrakech 28: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Marrakech 25: Beaver Creek leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Marrakech 38: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 67 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Marrakech 25: Beaver Creek leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Marrakech 75: Marrakech leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Marrakech.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Marrakech
Best match
49match

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
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Marrakech in July

38 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekMarrakech
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation2,264 m465 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekMarrakech
City population-1,002,697
People per km²-4,360
Museums within 10 km014
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.