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The beach with the bay and the skyline behind, Acapulco
AcapulcoThe beach with the bay and the skyline behind
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Acapulco by Felicia Navarrete, Pexels License; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Acapulco or Copper Mountain?

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 Acapulco for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Copper Mountain for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Copper Mountain’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. Acapulco 80, Copper Mountain 3: Acapulco leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Acapulco 55, Copper Mountain 20: Acapulco leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Acapulco 28, Copper Mountain 4: Acapulco leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Acapulco 64, Copper Mountain 12: Acapulco leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Acapulco 50, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Acapulco 15, Copper Mountain 55: Copper Mountain leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Acapulco 45, Copper Mountain 62: Copper Mountain leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Acapulco 30, Copper Mountain 48: Copper Mountain leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Acapulco 32, Copper Mountain 8: Acapulco leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Acapulco 74, Copper Mountain 18: Acapulco leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Acapulco 26, Copper Mountain 8: Acapulco leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Acapulco 32, Copper Mountain 28: Acapulco leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Acapulco and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Acapulco
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Acapulco in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
226 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Copper Mountain in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Copper Mountain's temperatures are measured 35 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Copper Mountain 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. Acapulco: 1991-2020 normals, Acapulco, Gro. (5.9 km from centre). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAcapulcoCopper Mountain
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation18 m2,955 m
Main airportGeneral Juan N. Álvarez International Airport (ACA)18 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAcapulcoCopper Mountain
City population658,609650
People per km²3508
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.