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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 Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License.

Copper Mountain or Macau?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Macau for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Macau’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, Macau 24: Macau leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Macau 77: Macau leads by 57 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Macau 62: Macau leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Macau 40: Macau leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Macau 5: Copper Mountain leads by 85 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Macau 52: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Macau 48: Copper Mountain leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Macau 60: Macau leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Macau 58: Macau leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Macau 44: Macau leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Macau 36: Macau leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Macau 40: Macau leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Macau.

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.

Macau
Best match
46match

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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainMacau

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). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainMacau
Official language-Portuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation2,955 m22 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainMacau
City population650682,100
People per km²85,916
Museums within 10 km028
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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.