VacationSelector

Bologna or Copenhagen?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

BolognaCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
BolognaCopenhagen
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km217
Coast distance74 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 15 points.15
BolognaCopenhagen
Score5873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2037
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 8 points.8
BolognaCopenhagen
Score6775
Museums within 10 km5883
Museums within 2 km of centre4351
Share of museums within 2 km %7461
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 14 points.14
BolognaCopenhagen
Score5367
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7458
Nightclubs within 4 km3064
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 11 points.11
BolognaCopenhagen
Score3950
Protected land share 50 km %75
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10039
Park area within 2 km119 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 16 points.16
BolognaCopenhagen
Score5571
Tourist attractions within 2 km3254
Park area within 2 km119 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 14 points.14
BolognaCopenhagen
Score6074
Notable places within 2 km120273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 16 points.16
BolognaCopenhagen
Score6852
Price level global64.987.8
Daily budget€155€214
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 12 points.12
BolognaCopenhagen
Score6755
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm28 mm to 74 mm
Dry months53
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Copenhagen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaCopenhagen
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 118 km
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
DohaDOH
5 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
6 h 5 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaCopenhagen
Official languageItalianDanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m14 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaCopenhagen
City population387,971667,099
People per km²2,7547,339
Museums within 10 km6672
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre6282
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.