VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Cork?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

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

Cork
38
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

CopenhagenCork
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 26 points.26
CopenhagenCork
Score5428
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenCork
Score7350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3735
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 52 points.52
CopenhagenCork
Score7523
Museums within 10 km8310
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %6180
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenCork
Score6738
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5881
Nightclubs within 4 km649
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenCork
Score5052
Protected land share 50 km %5
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3974
Park area within 2 km138 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 44 points.44
CopenhagenCork
Score7127
Tourist attractions within 2 km547
Park area within 2 km138 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 52 points.52
CopenhagenCork
Score7422
Notable places within 2 km27314
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenCork
Score5257
Price level global87.880.2
Daily budget€214€187
Year-round weather. Copenhagen leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenCork
Score5549
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm78 mm to 140 mm
Dry months30
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 35 m
€144-151
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FaroFAO
3 h 40 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
DublinDUB
2 h 10 m
€57-93
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 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

MeasureCopenhagenCork
Official languageDanishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m0 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenCork
City population667,099222,333
People per km²7,3395,961
Museums within 10 km725
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8249
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.