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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bath 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 Bath for

  • culture and sights
  • wellness
  • shopping

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

Choose Copper Mountain for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Bath 10, Copper Mountain 3: Bath leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Copper Mountain 20: Bath leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Copper Mountain 4: Bath leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Copper Mountain 12: Bath leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Copper Mountain 55: Bath leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Copper Mountain 62: Copper Mountain leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Copper Mountain 48: Bath leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Copper Mountain 8: Bath leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Copper Mountain 18: Bath leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Copper Mountain 8: Bath leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Copper Mountain 28: Bath leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness with your weighting.

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath 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.

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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathCopper Mountain
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m2,955 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathCopper Mountain
City population94,092650
People per km²3,2458
Museums within 10 km170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.