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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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 Miguel de Allende 4: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, San Miguel de Allende 40: Beaver Creek leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, San Miguel de Allende 32: Beaver Creek leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and San Miguel de Allende.

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.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

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 recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekSan Miguel de Allende

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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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 Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekSan Miguel de Allende
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,264 m1,900 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekSan Miguel de Allende
City population-69,811
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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.