VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Lyon?

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 beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Lyon
52
match

Wins on value for money and 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.

CopenhagenLyon
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenLyon
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1726
Coast distance1 km253 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenLyon
Score7379
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3740
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenLyon
Score7555
Museums within 10 km8353
Museums within 2 km of centre5125
Share of museums within 2 km %6147
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenLyon
Score6758
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5871
Nightclubs within 4 km6447
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenLyon
Score5033
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 12 points.12
CopenhagenLyon
Score7159
Tourist attractions within 2 km5425
Park area within 2 km138 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenLyon
Score7454
Notable places within 2 km27386
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenLyon
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenLyon
Score5564
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 40 m
€184-250
1 stop
GVA · 111 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureCopenhagenLyon
Official languageDanishFrench
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m160 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenLyon
City population667,099519,127
People per km²7,33910,838
Museums within 10 km7242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre82148
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.