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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 main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Sayulita?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Sayulita 7: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Sayulita 72: Copper Mountain leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Sayulita 42: Copper Mountain leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Sayulita 42: Copper Mountain leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain and Sayulita are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Sayulita 12: Sayulita leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Sayulita 58: Sayulita 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 Sayulita.

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.

Sayulita
Best match
43match

Wins on beaches 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 seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainSayulita

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.

Sayulita has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainSayulita
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 m2 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainSayulita
City population6503,390
People per km²8-
Museums within 10 km00
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.