VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Faro?

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.

Faro
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

CopenhagenFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenFaro
Score5461
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1713
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenFaro
Score7344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3722
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 53 points.53
CopenhagenFaro
Score7522
Museums within 10 km839
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %6189
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 46 points.46
CopenhagenFaro
Score6721
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5886
Nightclubs within 4 km648
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenFaro
Score5057
Protected land share 50 km %511
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3942
Park area within 2 km138 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 35 points.35
CopenhagenFaro
Score7136
Tourist attractions within 2 km5410
Park area within 2 km138 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 52 points.52
CopenhagenFaro
Score7422
Notable places within 2 km27314
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenFaro
Score5274
Price level global87.855.9
Daily budget€214€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 28 points.28
CopenhagenFaro
Score5583
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months36
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
2 h 10 m
€57-93
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€107-166
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureCopenhagenFaro
Official languageDanishPortuguese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m10 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenFaro
City population667,09964,560
People per km²7,339319
Museums within 10 km722
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8234
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.