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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

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

Beaver Creek or Mazatlan?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Mazatlan for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Mazatlan’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, Mazatlan 80: Mazatlan leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Mazatlan 42: Mazatlan leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Mazatlan 55: Mazatlan leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Mazatlan 66: Beaver Creek leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Mazatlan 45: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Mazatlan 60: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Mazatlan 42: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Mazatlan 30: Mazatlan leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Mazatlan 70: Mazatlan leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Mazatlan 40: Mazatlan leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Mazatlan 35: Beaver Creek 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 Mazatlan.

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.

Mazatlan
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Mazatlan in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekMazatlan
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m139 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekMazatlan
City population-441,975
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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.