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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Nice?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Nice 66: Nice leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Nice 64: Nice leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Nice 47: Nice leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Nice 80: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Nice 87: Nice leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Nice 57: Beaver Creek leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Nice 74: Nice leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Nice 55: Nice leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Nice 35: Nice leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Nice 45: Nice leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Nice 40: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Nice.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekNice
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m0 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekNice
City population-357,737
People per km²-4,975
Museums within 10 km017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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.