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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Vine rows before the snow-capped Andes in the Uco Valley, Mendoza
MendozaVine rows before the snow-capped Andes in the Uco Valley

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Mendoza by David, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Mendoza?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Mendoza for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Mendoza’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 Mendoza are level on 6.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Mendoza 68: Mendoza leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Mendoza 30: Mendoza leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Mendoza 40: Mendoza leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Mendoza 83: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Mendoza 52: Mendoza leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Mendoza 42: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Mendoza 48: Mendoza leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Mendoza 33: Mendoza leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Mendoza 56: Mendoza leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Mendoza 33: Beaver Creek leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek and Mendoza are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Mendoza.

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.

Mendoza
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Mendoza in July

15 °Cdaytime high
2 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
10 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). Mendoza: 1991-2020 normals, Mendoza Aerodrome (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekMendoza
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation2,264 m769 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsGovernor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport (MDZ)8 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekMendoza
City population-127,160
People per km²-2,355
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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.