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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

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

Beaver Creek or Valparaiso?

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 Valparaiso for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Valparaiso 50: Valparaiso leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Valparaiso 60: Beaver Creek leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Valparaiso 33: Beaver Creek leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Valparaiso 44: Beaver Creek leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Valparaiso 30: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Valparaiso 38: Valparaiso leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Valparaiso 18: Beaver Creek leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Valparaiso.

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.

Valparaiso
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
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.

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekValparaiso
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 m21 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekValparaiso
City population-296,655
People per km²-6,180
Museums within 10 km017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.