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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 Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Guilin?

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

  • families
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Guilin for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Guilin’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, Guilin 8: Guilin leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Guilin 45: Guilin leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Guilin 40: Guilin leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Guilin 30: Guilin leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Guilin 88: Copper Mountain leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Guilin 56: Guilin leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Guilin 45: Copper Mountain leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Guilin 45: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Guilin 28: Guilin leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Guilin 78: Guilin leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Guilin 30: Guilin leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Guilin 40: Guilin leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Guilin.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Guilin
Best match
44match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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
15 hdaylight a day

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainGuilin

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). Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainGuilin
Official language-Putonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation2,955 m153 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainGuilin
City population6504,931,137
People per km²8-
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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. 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.