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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Santiago?

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
  • families

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

Choose Santiago for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago’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, Santiago 12: Santiago leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Santiago 52: Santiago leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Santiago 83: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Santiago 70: Santiago leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Santiago 57: Beaver Creek leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Santiago 68: Santiago leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Santiago 52: Santiago leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Santiago 58: Santiago leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Santiago 55: Santiago leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Santiago 37: Beaver Creek leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Santiago.

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.

Santiago
Best match
55match

Wins on prices 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 recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Santiago in July

14 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
52 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
10 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). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekSantiago
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation2,264 m575 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekSantiago
City population-6,257,516
People per km²-7,468
Museums within 10 km054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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.