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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 golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Copper Mountain or Jerusalem?

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 Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 88 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Jerusalem 38: Jerusalem leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Jerusalem 60: Copper Mountain leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Jerusalem 80: Jerusalem leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Jerusalem 52: Copper Mountain leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Jerusalem 55: Jerusalem leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Jerusalem 48: Jerusalem leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Jerusalem 20: Jerusalem leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Jerusalem 42: Jerusalem leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Jerusalem.

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.

Jerusalem
Best match
53match

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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
27 °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.

Jerusalem 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). Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainJerusalem
Official language-Hebrew
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 100, fire 102
Elevation2,955 m754 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainJerusalem
City population6501,050,151
People per km²88,374
Museums within 10 km069
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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.