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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 towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light, Panama City
Panama CityThe towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Panama City by Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Panama City?

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

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Panama City for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Panama City’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, Panama City 44: Panama City leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Panama City 57: Panama City leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Panama City 74: Copper Mountain leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Panama City 50: Copper Mountain leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Panama City 45: Copper Mountain leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Panama City 40: Copper Mountain leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Panama City 52: Panama City leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Panama City 55: Panama City leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Panama City 34: Panama City leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Panama City 22: Copper Mountain leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Panama City.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Panama City
Best match
50match

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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Panama City in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
161 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainPanama City

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.

Panama City 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). Panama City: 1991-2020 normals, Tocumen (20.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainPanama City
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Balboa (PAB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,955 m20 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsTocumen International Airport (PTY)20 km from centre92 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainPanama City
City population6501,540,000
People per km²85,600
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.