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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 floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Copper Mountain or Hiroshima?

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 Hiroshima for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Hiroshima 62: Copper Mountain leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Hiroshima 60: Copper Mountain leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Hiroshima.

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.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 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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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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainHiroshima
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 m3 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainHiroshima
City population6501,198,021
People per km²81,324
Museums within 10 km018
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.