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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 Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Oslo?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Oslo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’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, Oslo 36: Oslo leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Oslo 55: Oslo leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Oslo 48: Oslo leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Oslo 82: Copper Mountain leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Oslo 52: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Oslo 63: Oslo leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Oslo 14: Copper Mountain leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Oslo.

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 prices with your weighting.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainOslo

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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainOslo
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation2,955 m23 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainOslo
City population650717,710
People per km²8-
Museums within 10 km060
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. 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.