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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek or Yokohama?

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

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Yokohama 66: Beaver Creek leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekYokohama
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,264 m24 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekYokohama
City population-3,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.