VacationSelector

Cancun or Copenhagen?

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

Your match

Cancun
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

CancunCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 43 points.43
CancunCopenhagen
Score9754
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km2317
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 19 points.19
CancunCopenhagen
Score5473
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6811,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1837
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 55 points.55
CancunCopenhagen
Score2075
Museums within 10 km183
Museums within 2 km of centre151
Share of museums within 2 km %10061
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 31 points.31
CancunCopenhagen
Score3667
Drinking venues within 4 km2701,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6558
Nightclubs within 4 km3364
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 4 points.4
CancunCopenhagen
Score5450
Protected land share 50 km %95
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4539
Park area within 2 km66 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 39 points.39
CancunCopenhagen
Score3271
Tourist attractions within 2 km254
Park area within 2 km66 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 70 points.70
CancunCopenhagen
Score474
Notable places within 2 km5273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 24 points.24
CancunCopenhagen
Score7652
Price level global54.287.8
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 26 points.26
CancunCopenhagen
Score8155
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm28 mm to 74 mm
Dry months13
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunCopenhagen
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 45 m
€321-392
CUN · 14 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 25 m
€313-363
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
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

MeasureCancunCopenhagen
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaDanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m14 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunCopenhagen
City population888,797667,099
People per km²7,339
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3182
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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. 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.