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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Alicante 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 Alicante for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Copper Mountain for

  • nature and the outdoors

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. Alicante 82, Copper Mountain 3: Alicante leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Copper Mountain 20: Alicante leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Copper Mountain 4: Alicante leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Copper Mountain 12: Alicante leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Copper Mountain 55: Alicante leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Copper Mountain 62: Alicante leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Copper Mountain 48: Alicante leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Copper Mountain 8: Alicante leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Copper Mountain 18: Alicante leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Copper Mountain 8: Alicante leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Copper Mountain 28: Alicante leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Alicante in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteCopper Mountain
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m2,955 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteCopper Mountain
City population366,221650
People per km²1,8198
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.