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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 glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden, St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg, FloridaThe glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; St. Petersburg, Florida by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Copper Mountain leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain and St. Petersburg, Florida are level on 55.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Copper Mountain leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and St. Petersburg, Florida.

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. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 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. Petersburg, Florida

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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainSt. Petersburg, Florida
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 m134 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population650258,308
People per km²8725
Museums within 10 km013
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.