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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Latin Bridge over the Miljacka, Sarajevo
SarajevoThe Latin Bridge over the Miljacka

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sarajevo by Tumi-1983, CC0.

Beaver Creek or Sarajevo?

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

  • families
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Sarajevo for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Sarajevo’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 and Sarajevo are level on 6.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Sarajevo 60: Sarajevo leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Sarajevo 64: Sarajevo leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Sarajevo 44: Sarajevo leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Sarajevo 78: Beaver Creek leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Sarajevo 62: Sarajevo leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Sarajevo 38: Beaver Creek leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Sarajevo 60: Sarajevo leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Sarajevo 40: Sarajevo leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Sarajevo 80: Sarajevo leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Sarajevo 40: Sarajevo leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Sarajevo 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 Sarajevo.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

Sarajevo
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Sarajevo in July

28 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
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). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekSarajevo
Official language-Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
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 m518 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekSarajevo
City population-275,524
People per km²-1,947
Museums within 10 km025
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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.