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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
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Newport Beach?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport Beach’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, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Newport Beach 50: Newport Beach leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Newport Beach 20: Newport Beach leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Newport Beach 33: Newport Beach leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Newport Beach 66: Copper Mountain leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Newport Beach 20: Copper Mountain leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 54 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Newport Beach 15: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Newport Beach 46: Newport Beach leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Newport Beach.

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.

Newport Beach
Best match
48match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °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.

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). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainNewport Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,955 m3 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainNewport Beach
City population65085,239
People per km²8622
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.