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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Nairobi?

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

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Nairobi for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nairobi’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, Nairobi 4: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Nairobi 48: Nairobi leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Nairobi 35: Nairobi leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Nairobi 58: Nairobi leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Nairobi 84: Beaver Creek leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Nairobi 28: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Nairobi 55: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Nairobi 20: Beaver Creek leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Nairobi 45: Nairobi leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Nairobi 60: Nairobi leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Nairobi 35: Beaver Creek leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Nairobi 25: Beaver Creek leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Nairobi.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Nairobi
Best match
41match

Wins on prices 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 recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 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). Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekNairobi
Official language-English, Swahili
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation2,264 m1,661 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekNairobi
City population-5,545,000
People per km²-7,967
Museums within 10 km04
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.