VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Palermo?

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.

Palermo
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

CopenhagenPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenPalermo
Score5467
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1713
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenPalermo
Score7350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3713
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenPalermo
Score7550
Museums within 10 km8332
Museums within 2 km of centre5126
Share of museums within 2 km %6181
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 14 points.14
CopenhagenPalermo
Score6753
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5864
Nightclubs within 4 km6416
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 14 points.14
CopenhagenPalermo
Score5036
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3945
Park area within 2 km138 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 30 points.30
CopenhagenPalermo
Score7141
Tourist attractions within 2 km5416
Park area within 2 km138 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenPalermo
Score7457
Notable places within 2 km273104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
CopenhagenPalermo
Score5268
Price level global87.864.9
Daily budget€214€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenPalermo
Score5577
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months37
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 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

MeasureCopenhagenPalermo
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 m14 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenPalermo
City population667,099630,167
People per km²7,3393,924
Museums within 10 km7242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8233
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.