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Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Copper Mountain or Cork?

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 Copper Mountain for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Cork for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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. Copper Mountain 3, Cork 25: Cork leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Cork 58: Cork leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Cork 40: Cork leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Cork 40: Cork leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Cork 62: Copper Mountain leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Cork 68: Cork leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Cork 50: Copper Mountain leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Cork 58: Cork leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Cork 40: Cork leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Cork 33: Cork leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Cork 45: Cork leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Cork 22: Copper Mountain leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Cork.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

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

Cork
Best match
45match

Wins on food and drink and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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.

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainCork
Official language-English, Irish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,955 m0 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainCork
City population650222,333
People per km²85,961
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.