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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
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Copper Mountain or Hobart?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Hobart for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Hobart leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Hobart 30: Hobart leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Hobart 85: Copper Mountain leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Hobart 56: Copper Mountain leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Hobart 45: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Hobart 38: Hobart leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Hobart 35: Hobart leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Hobart 45: Hobart leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Hobart 40: Hobart 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 Hobart.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Hobart
Best match
48match

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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainHobart

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). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainHobart
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation2,955 m54 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainHobart
City population650197,451
People per km²8116
Museums within 10 km08
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.