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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule, Munich
MunichThe Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Munich by 0xd1ma, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Munich?

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

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

Choose Munich for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Munich’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, Munich 28: Munich leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Munich 62: Munich leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Munich 79: Munich leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Munich 56: Munich leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Munich 82: Beaver Creek leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Munich 86: Munich leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Munich 78: Munich leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Munich 86: Munich leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Munich 72: Munich leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Munich 32: Munich leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Munich 84: Munich leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Munich 62: Munich 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 Munich.

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 with your weighting.

Munich
Best match
67match

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

Munich in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
8 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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekMunich
Official language-German
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 m519 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekMunich
City population-1,505,036
People per km²-4,844
Museums within 10 km074
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. 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.