VacationSelector

Copenhagen or New York?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

CopenhagenNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenNew York
Score5464
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1717
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenNew York
Score7395
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1836,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3738
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 15 points.15
CopenhagenNew York
Score7560
Museums within 10 km83119
Museums within 2 km of centre5131
Share of museums within 2 km %6126
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. New York leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenNew York
Score6789
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3844,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8062,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5848
Nightclubs within 4 km64192
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenNew York
Score5039
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3969
Park area within 2 km138 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenNew York
Score7172
Tourist attractions within 2 km5437
Park area within 2 km138 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Copenhagen and New York are level on 74.
CopenhagenNew York
Score7474
Notable places within 2 km273268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenNew York
Score5243
Price level global87.8100
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. New York leads by 3 points.3
CopenhagenNew York
Score5558
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 45 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 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

MeasureCopenhagenNew York
Official languageDanish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m25 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenNew York
City population667,0998,804,190
People per km²7,3397,256
Museums within 10 km72157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre82132
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.