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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
Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Penang?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Penang for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Penang’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, Penang 44: Penang leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Penang 86: Penang leads by 66 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Penang 70: Penang leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Penang 40: Penang leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Penang 55: Copper Mountain leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Penang 42: Copper Mountain leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Penang 52: Copper Mountain leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Penang 40: Copper Mountain leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Penang 42: Penang leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Penang 78: Penang leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Penang 30: Penang leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Penang 42: Penang leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Penang.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Penang
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights 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

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainPenang

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). Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainPenang
Official language-Malay
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation2,955 m4 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainPenang
City population650794,313
People per km²8-
Museums within 10 km09
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.