VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Maastricht?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
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.

CopenhagenMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km176
Coast distance1 km118 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score7348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3722
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score7553
Museums within 10 km8323
Museums within 2 km of centre5113
Share of museums within 2 km %6157
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 37 points.37
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score6730
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5882
Nightclubs within 4 km6413
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score5037
Protected land share 50 km %519
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score7146
Tourist attractions within 2 km5415
Park area within 2 km138 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 38 points.38
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score7436
Notable places within 2 km27332
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score5258
Price level global87.879.2
Daily budget€214€181
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
CopenhagenMaastricht
Score5559
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm41 mm to 84 mm
Dry months30
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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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 50 m
€63-80
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 25 m
€58-87
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 85 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureCopenhagenMaastricht
Official languageDanishDutch
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation14 m49 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenMaastricht
City population667,099120,227
People per km²7,3392,000
Museums within 10 km7221
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre8233
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.