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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 red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Fukuoka?

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

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

Choose Fukuoka for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Fukuoka’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, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 62 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Fukuoka 62: Copper Mountain leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Fukuoka 84: Fukuoka leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Fukuoka 78: Fukuoka leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Fukuoka 65: Fukuoka leads by 57 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Fukuoka 58: Fukuoka leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Fukuoka 45: Fukuoka leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Fukuoka.

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 with your weighting.

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on food and drink and shopping 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

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainFukuoka

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). Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainFukuoka
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,955 m8 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainFukuoka
City population6501,603,043
People per km²84,715
Museums within 10 km023
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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. 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.