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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
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Dublin?

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 Dublin for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Dublin leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Dublin 50: Dublin leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Dublin 70: Copper Mountain leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Dublin 57: Copper Mountain leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Dublin 20: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Dublin 25: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Dublin.

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.

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainDublin

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. Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainDublin
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 m20 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainDublin
City population650592,713
People per km²85,154
Museums within 10 km040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.