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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The House of the Blackheads at dusk, Riga
RigaThe House of the Blackheads at dusk

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Riga by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Riga?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Riga for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Riga’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, Riga 40: Riga leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Riga 52: Riga leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Riga 66: Riga leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Riga 52: Riga leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Riga 55: Beaver Creek leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Riga 60: Riga leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Riga 50: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Riga 68: Riga leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Riga 45: Riga leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Riga 62: Riga leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Riga 65: Riga leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Riga 50: Beaver Creek 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 Riga.

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 families with your weighting.

Riga
Best match
55match

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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Riga in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekRiga

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). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekRiga
Official language-Latvian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m6 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekRiga
City population-588,911
Museums within 10 km012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.