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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 Tampa Bay Hotel across the river, Tampa
TampaThe old Tampa Bay Hotel across the river

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Tampa by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain or Tampa?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Tampa for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tampa’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, Tampa 70: Tampa leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Tampa 57: Tampa leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Tampa 42: Tampa leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Tampa 52: Tampa leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Tampa 55: Copper Mountain leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Tampa 54: Copper Mountain leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Tampa 78: Tampa leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Tampa 22: Copper Mountain leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Tampa 40: Tampa leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Tampa 40: Tampa leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Tampa 47: Tampa leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Tampa 30: Tampa leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Tampa.

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.

Tampa
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Tampa in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °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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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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainTampa
City population650384,959
People per km²8848
Museums within 10 km06
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.