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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Petra?

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

  • families
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Petra for

  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Beaver Creek leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Petra 22: Beaver Creek leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Petra 85: Petra leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Petra 5: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Petra 78: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Petra 30: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Petra 25: Beaver Creek leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Petra 25: Beaver Creek leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Petra 18: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Petra 45: Petra leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Petra 10: Beaver Creek leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Petra 28: Beaver Creek leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Petra.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
Best match
35match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekPetra

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.

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekPetra
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m850 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekPetra
Museums within 10 km02
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. 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.