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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 pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Copper Mountain or St. Pete Beach?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 84 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, St. Pete Beach 40: St. Pete Beach leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, St. Pete Beach 18: St. Pete Beach leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, St. Pete Beach 28: St. Pete Beach leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, St. Pete Beach 57: Copper Mountain leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, St. Pete Beach 30: Copper Mountain leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, St. Pete Beach 20: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, St. Pete Beach 32: St. Pete Beach leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, St. Pete Beach 20: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach 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 St. Pete Beach.

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 getting around with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
Best match
42match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Copper MountainSt. Pete Beach

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.

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainSt. Pete Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,955 m2 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainSt. Pete Beach
City population6508,879
People per km²8173
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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.