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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
Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Ghent?

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

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

Choose Ghent for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’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, Ghent 25: Ghent leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Ghent 62: Ghent leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Ghent 72: Ghent leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Ghent 55: Ghent leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Ghent 35: Copper Mountain leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Ghent 88: Ghent leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Ghent 50: Copper Mountain leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Ghent 78: Ghent leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Ghent 50: Ghent leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Ghent 38: Ghent leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Ghent 60: Ghent leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Ghent 33: Ghent leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Ghent.

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.

Ghent
Best match
54match

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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °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.

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainGhent
Official language-French, German, Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,955 m12 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainGhent
City population650272,657
People per km²81,728
Museums within 10 km030
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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.