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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
La Concha beach and Monte Urgull, San Sebastian
San SebastianLa Concha beach and Monte Urgull

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; San Sebastian by Guérin Nicolas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or San Sebastian?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose San Sebastian for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on San Sebastian’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 Sebastian 68: San Sebastian leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, San Sebastian 88: San Sebastian leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, San Sebastian 52: San Sebastian leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, San Sebastian 44: San Sebastian leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, San Sebastian 72: Beaver Creek leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, San Sebastian 80: San Sebastian leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, San Sebastian 66: San Sebastian leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, San Sebastian 80: San Sebastian leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, San Sebastian 40: San Sebastian leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, San Sebastian 32: San Sebastian leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, San Sebastian 45: San Sebastian leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, San Sebastian 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 San Sebastian.

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 wellness with your weighting.

San Sebastian
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

San Sebastian in July

22 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekSan Sebastian

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 Sebastian's station stands 252 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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 Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekSan Sebastian
Official language-Spanish
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 m6 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekSan Sebastian
City population-189,866
People per km²-3,118
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 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. 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.