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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Orlando?

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
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Orlando for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Orlando’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, Orlando 42: Orlando leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Orlando 48: Orlando leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Orlando 22: Orlando leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Orlando 46: Beaver Creek leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Orlando 8: Beaver Creek leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Orlando 36: Orlando leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Orlando 32: Beaver Creek leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Orlando.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Orlando
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and families 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
15 hdaylight a day

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekOrlando
City population-334,854
People per km²-1,086
Museums within 10 km011
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.