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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
Neues Schloss with magnolias in bloom, Stuttgart
StuttgartNeues Schloss with magnolias in bloom

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Stuttgart by Baden de, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Stuttgart?

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 Stuttgart for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Stuttgart’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, Stuttgart 8: Stuttgart leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Stuttgart 62: Stuttgart leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Stuttgart 42: Stuttgart leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Stuttgart 60: Copper Mountain leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Stuttgart 80: Stuttgart leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Stuttgart 66: Stuttgart leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Stuttgart 72: Stuttgart leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Stuttgart 40: Stuttgart leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Stuttgart 74: Stuttgart leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Stuttgart 64: Stuttgart leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Stuttgart.

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.

Stuttgart
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
15 hdaylight a day

Stuttgart in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
79 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainStuttgart
Official language-German
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 m245 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainStuttgart
City population650609,365
People per km²82,938
Museums within 10 km042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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. 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.