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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bologna 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 Bologna for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bologna’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. Bologna 30, Copper Mountain 3: Bologna leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Copper Mountain 20: Bologna leads by 62 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Copper Mountain 4: Bologna leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Copper Mountain 12: Bologna leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Copper Mountain 55: Bologna leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Copper Mountain 62: Copper Mountain leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Copper Mountain 48: Bologna leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Copper Mountain 8: Bologna leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Copper Mountain 18: Bologna leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Copper Mountain 8: Bologna leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Copper Mountain 28: Bologna leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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.

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 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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Where the figures come from

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaCopper Mountain
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m2,955 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaCopper Mountain
City population387,971650
People per km²2,7548
Museums within 10 km680
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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). 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.