VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Nice?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Nice
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

CopenhagenNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenNice
Score5473
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1770
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 4 points.4
CopenhagenNice
Score7369
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3728
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenNice
Score7546
Museums within 10 km8327
Museums within 2 km of centre5114
Share of museums within 2 km %6152
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenNice
Score6744
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5891
Nightclubs within 4 km6426
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenNice
Score5057
Protected land share 50 km %524
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %3962
Park area within 2 km138 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 41 points.41
CopenhagenNice
Score7130
Tourist attractions within 2 km544
Park area within 2 km138 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 27 points.27
CopenhagenNice
Score7447
Notable places within 2 km27360
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenNice
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenNice
Score5574
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months33
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
€165-218
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 0 m
€192-225
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 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

MeasureCopenhagenNice
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 m0 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenNice
City population667,099357,737
People per km²7,3394,975
Museums within 10 km7216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8265
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.