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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Puerto Princesa?

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

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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 Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek and Puerto Princesa are level on 38.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Puerto Princesa 22: Puerto Princesa leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Puerto Princesa 26: Puerto Princesa leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Puerto Princesa 80: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Puerto Princesa 12: Beaver Creek leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Puerto Princesa 45: Beaver Creek leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Puerto Princesa 30: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Puerto Princesa 20: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 73 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Puerto Princesa 10: Beaver Creek leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Puerto Princesa 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 Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
Best match
38match

Wins on prices and beaches 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekPuerto Princesa

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.

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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 Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekPuerto Princesa
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m98 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekPuerto Princesa
City population-316,384
People per km²-133
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.