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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 old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Rovinj?

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
  • families

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’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, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Rovinj 25: Rovinj leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Rovinj 60: Copper Mountain leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Rovinj 52: Copper Mountain leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Rovinj 28: Rovinj leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Rovinj 36: Rovinj leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Rovinj 15: Rovinj leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Rovinj 42: Rovinj 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 Rovinj.

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 families with your weighting.

Rovinj
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj 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). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainRovinj
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,955 m0 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainRovinj
City population65012,968
People per km²8-
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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.