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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Copper Mountain for

  • families
  • day trips
  • 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. Arequipa 8, Copper Mountain 3: Arequipa leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Copper Mountain 20: Arequipa leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Copper Mountain 4: Arequipa leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Copper Mountain 12: Arequipa leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Copper Mountain 55: Copper Mountain leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Copper Mountain 62: Copper Mountain leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Copper Mountain 48: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Copper Mountain 8: Arequipa leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Copper Mountain 18: Arequipa leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Copper Mountain 8: Arequipa leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Copper Mountain 28: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Arequipa
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on families 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.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Copper Mountain in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaCopper Mountain
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation2,335 m2,955 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaCopper Mountain
City population1,008,290650
People per km²1,5518
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.