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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
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Puerto Escondido?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Puerto Escondido 8: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Puerto Escondido 78: Copper Mountain leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Puerto Escondido 35: Copper Mountain leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Puerto Escondido 42: Copper Mountain leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Puerto Escondido 40: Copper Mountain leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Puerto Escondido 22: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Puerto Escondido 12: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

-10°0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainPuerto Escondido

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.

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainPuerto Escondido
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,955 m60 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainPuerto Escondido
City population65029,903
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.