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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
Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
KathmanduSwayambhunath with its prayer flags

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Kathmandu by Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Kathmandu?

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
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Kathmandu for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Kathmandu’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, Kathmandu 4: Kathmandu leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Kathmandu 55: Kathmandu leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Kathmandu 82: Kathmandu leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Kathmandu 36: Kathmandu leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Kathmandu 70: Copper Mountain leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Kathmandu 56: Kathmandu leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Kathmandu 20: Copper Mountain leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Kathmandu 25: Copper Mountain leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Kathmandu 55: Kathmandu leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Kathmandu 97: Kathmandu leads by 79 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Kathmandu 28: Kathmandu leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Kathmandu 45: Kathmandu leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Kathmandu.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Kathmandu
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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
15 hdaylight a day

Kathmandu in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
384 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainKathmandu

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). Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainKathmandu
Official language-Nepali
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+5:45
Emergency number911Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation2,955 m1,300 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainKathmandu
City population650845,767
People per km²817,121
Museums within 10 km09
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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. 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.