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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Ubud?

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

  • getting around
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Ubud for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Ubud leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Ubud 15: Ubud leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Ubud 80: Beaver Creek leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Ubud 48: Beaver Creek leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Ubud 10: Beaver Creek leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Ubud.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

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Beaver CreekUbud

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.

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekUbud
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m210 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekUbud
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.