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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 fountain in Piazza De Ferrari, Genoa
GenoaThe fountain in Piazza De Ferrari

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Genoa by Faber1893, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Genoa?

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 Genoa for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Genoa’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, Genoa 62: Genoa leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Genoa 72: Genoa leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Genoa 76: Genoa leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Genoa 42: Genoa leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Genoa 78: Copper Mountain leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Genoa 83: Genoa leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Genoa 64: Genoa leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Genoa 66: Genoa leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Genoa 48: Genoa leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Genoa 55: Genoa leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Genoa 52: Genoa leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Genoa 35: Genoa leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Genoa.

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.

Genoa
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

Genoa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainGenoa

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.

Genoa 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.

Genoa's sunshine is measured 80 km from the centre, at Capo Mele.

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). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainGenoa
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,955 m20 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainGenoa
City population650558,745
People per km²82,325
Museums within 10 km051
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.