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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Miami Beach?

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
  • families

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Miami Beach 52: Miami Beach leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 68 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Miami Beach 52: Beaver Creek leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Miami Beach 60: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Miami Beach 58: Miami Beach leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Miami Beach 20: Miami Beach leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Miami Beach 48: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Miami Beach.

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.

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekMiami Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m1 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekMiami Beach
City population-82,890
People per km²-2,109
Museums within 10 km014
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.