VacationSelector

Bangkok or Copenhagen?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Copenhagen
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 14 points.14
BangkokCopenhagen
Score4054
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km017
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 10 points.10
BangkokCopenhagen
Score8373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2637
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
BangkokCopenhagen
Score4675
Museums within 10 km10383
Museums within 2 km of centre3051
Share of museums within 2 km %2961
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
BangkokCopenhagen
Score8367
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4158
Nightclubs within 4 km7264
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokCopenhagen
Score5150
Protected land share 50 km %5
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8339
Park area within 2 km42 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 14 points.14
BangkokCopenhagen
Score5771
Tourist attractions within 2 km3154
Park area within 2 km42 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 26 points.26
BangkokCopenhagen
Score4874
Notable places within 2 km62273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 41 points.41
BangkokCopenhagen
Score9352
Price level global29.787.8
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokCopenhagen
Score5655
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm28 mm to 74 mm
Dry months33
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Copenhagen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokCopenhagen
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBangkokCopenhagen
Official languageThaiDanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m14 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokCopenhagen
City population5,676,648667,099
People per km²3,6197,339
Museums within 10 km5972
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre9182
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.