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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
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Hurghada?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Hurghada for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Hurghada’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, Hurghada 84: Hurghada leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Hurghada 34: Hurghada leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Hurghada 14: Hurghada leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Hurghada 40: Hurghada leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Hurghada 72: Copper Mountain leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Hurghada 30: Copper Mountain leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain and Hurghada are level on 62.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Hurghada 22: Copper Mountain leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Hurghada 24: Hurghada leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Hurghada 80: Hurghada leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Hurghada 10: Hurghada leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Hurghada 44: Hurghada leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Hurghada.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Hurghada
Best match
43match

Wins on beaches and prices 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °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). Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainHurghada
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation2,955 m11 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainHurghada
City population650214,247
People per km²8-
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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.