VacationSelector

Cardiff or Copenhagen?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CardiffCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 8 points.8
CardiffCopenhagen
Score4654
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km817
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 13 points.13
CardiffCopenhagen
Score6073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5411,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3237
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 36 points.36
CardiffCopenhagen
Score3975
Museums within 10 km6183
Museums within 2 km of centre651
Share of museums within 2 km %1061
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 19 points.19
CardiffCopenhagen
Score4867
Drinking venues within 4 km5361,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7458
Nightclubs within 4 km3564
Nature & day trips. Cardiff and Copenhagen are level on 50.
CardiffCopenhagen
Score5050
Protected land share 50 km %185
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6839
Park area within 2 km88 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 39 points.39
CardiffCopenhagen
Score3271
Tourist attractions within 2 km454
Park area within 2 km88 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CardiffCopenhagen
Score4574
Notable places within 2 km51273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cardiff leads by 2 points.2
CardiffCopenhagen
Score5452
Price level global84.987.8
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Copenhagen leads by 1 points.1
CardiffCopenhagen
Score5455
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm28 mm to 74 mm
Dry months03
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Copenhagen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffCopenhagen
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
3 h 35 m
€144-151
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 0 m
€192-225
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
8 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCardiffCopenhagen
Official languageEnglishDanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m14 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffCopenhagen
City population383,536667,099
People per km²2,7347,339
Museums within 10 km972
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5582
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. 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.