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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
Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License.

Copper Mountain or Izmir?

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 Izmir for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Izmir’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, Izmir 62: Izmir leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Izmir 72: Izmir leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Izmir 60: Izmir leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Izmir 66: Copper Mountain leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Izmir 86: Izmir leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Izmir 55: Copper Mountain leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Izmir 63: Izmir leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Izmir 48: Izmir leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Izmir 57: Izmir leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Izmir.

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.

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches 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

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainIzmir

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). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainIzmir
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,955 m2 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainIzmir
City population6504,493,242
People per km²84,760
Museums within 10 km029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.