VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Melbourne?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Melbourne
60
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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.

CopenhagenMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score5455
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1719
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score7375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3729
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 26 points.26
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score7549
Museums within 10 km8342
Museums within 2 km of centre5124
Share of museums within 2 km %6157
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score6774
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8061,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5862
Nightclubs within 4 km64124
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score5043
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3981
Park area within 2 km138 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score7160
Tourist attractions within 2 km5426
Park area within 2 km138 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score7457
Notable places within 2 km273103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Copenhagen leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score5250
Price level global87.890.2
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenMelbourne
Score5576
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenMelbourne
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 25 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
11 h 35 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 25 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
New DelhiDEL
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCopenhagenMelbourne
Official languageDanishEnglish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation14 m31 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenMelbourne
City population667,0995,350,705
People per km²7,339535
Museums within 10 km7242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8286
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.