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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 Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Sapporo?

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

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • food and drink
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Sapporo leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 60 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Sapporo 40: Sapporo leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Sapporo 86: Copper Mountain leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Sapporo 64: Sapporo leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Sapporo 44: Sapporo leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 52 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Sapporo.

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 with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and wellness 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °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.

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). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainSapporo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,955 m5 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainSapporo
City population6501,959,313
People per km²81,747
Museums within 10 km033
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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.