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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
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Copper Mountain or Limassol?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Limassol’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, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Limassol 65: Copper Mountain leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Limassol 38: Copper Mountain leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Limassol 32: Limassol leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Limassol 42: Limassol 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 Limassol.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

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

Limassol in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
26 °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.

Limassol 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.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

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). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainLimassol
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,955 m10 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainLimassol
City population650107,970
People per km²82,405
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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.