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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or Salzburg?

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 Salzburg for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Salzburg 25: Salzburg leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Salzburg 86: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Salzburg 32: Salzburg leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek and Salzburg are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Salzburg.

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.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekSalzburg
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m424 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekSalzburg
City population-155,021
People per km²-2,360
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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. 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.