VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Los Angeles?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

CopenhagenLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score5429
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km
Water distance1 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score7366
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3722
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 26 points.26
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score7549
Museums within 10 km8369
Museums within 2 km of centre5123
Share of museums within 2 km %6133
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score6754
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5865
Nightclubs within 4 km6464
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score5062
Protected land share 50 km %526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3980
Park area within 2 km138 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 38 points.38
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score7133
Tourist attractions within 2 km5411
Park area within 2 km138 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score7454
Notable places within 2 km27388
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score5243
Price level global87.8100
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 32 points.32
CopenhagenLos Angeles
Score5587
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months38
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 0 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 45 m
€143-174
CPH · 8 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 45 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
16 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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

MeasureCopenhagenLos Angeles
Official languageDanish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m106 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenLos Angeles
City population667,0993,898,747
People per km²7,3392,994
Museums within 10 km7238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8246
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.