VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Interlaken?

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 nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

CopenhagenInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1712
Coast distance1 km713 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 44 points.44
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score7329
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3717
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 52 points.52
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score7523
Museums within 10 km835
Museums within 2 km of centre512
Share of museums within 2 km %6140
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 63 points.63
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score674
Drinking venues within 4 km1,38442
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre80638
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5890
Nightclubs within 4 km643
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score5027
Protected land share 50 km %519
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 57 points.57
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score7114
Tourist attractions within 2 km5411
Park area within 2 km138 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 52 points.52
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score7422
Notable places within 2 km27314
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score5235
Price level global87.8110.5
Daily budget€214€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenInterlaken
Score5557
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months33
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
BerlinBER
1 h 5 m
€62-71
CPH · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureCopenhagenInterlaken
Official languageDanishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m571 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenInterlaken
City population667,0996,123
People per km²7,3391,424
Museums within 10 km723
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8222
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. 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.