VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
63
match

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

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
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.

CopenhagenLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
CopenhagenLisbon
Score5457
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1724
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenLisbon
Score7380
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1832,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3731
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenLisbon
Score7570
Museums within 10 km83124
Museums within 2 km of centre5154
Share of museums within 2 km %6144
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenLisbon
Score6765
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5878
Nightclubs within 4 km6465
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenLisbon
Score5056
Protected land share 50 km %511
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3954
Park area within 2 km138 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenLisbon
Score7169
Tourist attractions within 2 km5482
Park area within 2 km138 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 8 points.8
CopenhagenLisbon
Score7466
Notable places within 2 km273169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenLisbon
Score5274
Price level global87.855.9
Daily budget€214€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenLisbon
Score5578
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months34
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 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

MeasureCopenhagenLisbon
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 m100 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenLisbon
City population667,099545,796
People per km²7,3395,453
Museums within 10 km7278
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre82106
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.