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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Puerto Iguazu?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Puerto Iguazu for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’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, Puerto Iguazu 5: Beaver Creek leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Puerto Iguazu 28: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Puerto Iguazu 9: Puerto Iguazu leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Puerto Iguazu 14: Puerto Iguazu leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Puerto Iguazu 95: Puerto Iguazu leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Puerto Iguazu 33: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Puerto Iguazu 55: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Puerto Iguazu 54: Puerto Iguazu leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Puerto Iguazu 17: Beaver Creek leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Puerto Iguazu 48: Puerto Iguazu leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Puerto Iguazu 7: Beaver Creek leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Puerto Iguazu 34: Beaver Creek leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Puerto Iguazu.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness with your weighting.

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on prices 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
15 hdaylight a day

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 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). Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekPuerto Iguazu
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation2,264 m162 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekPuerto Iguazu
City population-54,903
Museums within 10 km00
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.