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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Biarritz 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 Biarritz for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Biarritz’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. Biarritz 68, Copper Mountain 3: Biarritz leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Copper Mountain 20: Biarritz leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Copper Mountain 4: Biarritz leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Copper Mountain 12: Biarritz leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Copper Mountain 55: Biarritz leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Biarritz and Copper Mountain are level on 62.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Copper Mountain 48: Biarritz leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Copper Mountain 8: Biarritz leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Copper Mountain 18: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Copper Mountain 8: Biarritz leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Copper Mountain 28: Biarritz leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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.

Biarritz in July

24 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
97 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °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. Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzCopper Mountain
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,955 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzCopper Mountain
City population26,206650
People per km²2,2408
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.