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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Beaver Creek or San Francisco?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose San Francisco for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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, San Francisco 25: San Francisco leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, San Francisco 80: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, San Francisco 72: San Francisco leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, San Francisco 14: San Francisco leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, San Francisco 42: Beaver Creek leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and San Francisco.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
15 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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekSan Francisco
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m16 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekSan Francisco
City population-873,965
People per km²-1,455
Museums within 10 km051
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.