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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 Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License.

Copper Mountain or Madrid?

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

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

Choose Madrid for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’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, Madrid 5: Madrid leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Madrid 80: Madrid leads by 60 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Madrid 86: Madrid leads by 82 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Madrid 85: Madrid leads by 73 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Madrid 60: Copper Mountain leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Madrid 89: Madrid leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Madrid 68: Madrid leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Madrid 84: Madrid leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Madrid 75: Madrid leads by 67 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Madrid 50: Madrid leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Madrid 77: Madrid leads by 69 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Madrid 36: Madrid leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Madrid.

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 with your weighting.

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainMadrid

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainMadrid
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,955 m663 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainMadrid
City population6503,506,730
People per km²85,801
Museums within 10 km088
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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. 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.