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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Tromso?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Tromso for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Tromso leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Tromso 36: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Tromso 27: Tromso leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Tromso 14: Beaver Creek leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Tromso 45: Beaver Creek leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Tromso 15: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Tromso 11: Tromso leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Tromso 32: Beaver Creek leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Tromso 38: Beaver Creek leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Tromso.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nightlife 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekTromso
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation2,264 m20 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekTromso
City population-79,943
People per km²-32
Museums within 10 km08
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. 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.