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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Oslo?

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 Oslo for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’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, Oslo 36: Oslo leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Oslo 55: Oslo leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Oslo 48: Oslo leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Oslo 82: Beaver Creek leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Oslo 52: Oslo leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Oslo 63: Oslo leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Oslo 14: Oslo leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Oslo.

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.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekOslo
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation2,264 m23 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekOslo
City population-717,710
Museums within 10 km060
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.