VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Milan?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Copenhagen
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Milan
63
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CopenhagenMilan
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenMilan
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 3 points.3
CopenhagenMilan
Score7370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3720
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenMilan
Score7574
Museums within 10 km8387
Museums within 2 km of centre5155
Share of museums within 2 km %6163
Unesco sites within 50 km54
Nightlife. Milan leads by 8 points.8
CopenhagenMilan
Score6775
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3842,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5843
Nightclubs within 4 km6470
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 15 points.15
CopenhagenMilan
Score5065
Protected land share 50 km %530
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenMilan
Score7177
Tourist attractions within 2 km5476
Park area within 2 km138 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Copenhagen and Milan are level on 74.
CopenhagenMilan
Score7474
Notable places within 2 km273266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 16 points.16
CopenhagenMilan
Score5268
Price level global87.864.9
Daily budget€214€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenMilan
Score5564
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

MeasureCopenhagenMilan
Official languageDanishItalian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m138 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenMilan
City population667,0991,354,196
People per km²7,3397,453
Museums within 10 km7287
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Distinct cuisines in the centre8279
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.