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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Beijing 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 Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’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. Beijing 6, Copper Mountain 3: Beijing leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Copper Mountain 20: Beijing leads by 61 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Copper Mountain 4: Beijing leads by 89 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Copper Mountain 12: Beijing leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Copper Mountain 55: Beijing leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Copper Mountain 62: Beijing leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Copper Mountain 48: Beijing leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Copper Mountain 8: Beijing leads by 64 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Copper Mountain 18: Beijing leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Copper Mountain 8: Beijing leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Copper Mountain 28: Beijing leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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.

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Copper Mountain in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BeijingCopper Mountain

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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingCopper Mountain
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m2,955 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingCopper Mountain
City population21,893,095650
People per km²1,3348
Museums within 10 km830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60

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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). 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.