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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
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Copper Mountain or Montego Bay?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Montego Bay 28: Montego Bay leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Montego Bay 65: Copper Mountain leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Montego Bay 50: Copper Mountain leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Montego Bay 48: Copper Mountain leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Montego Bay 20: Copper Mountain leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Montego Bay 25: Montego Bay leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Montego Bay 38: Montego Bay leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay 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 Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montego Bay
Best match
44match

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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 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 MountainMontego Bay

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). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainMontego Bay
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation2,955 m19 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainMontego Bay
City population650123,994
People per km²8-
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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.