VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CopenhagenParis
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenParis
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km172
Coast distance1 km149 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenParis
Score7390
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1834,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3733
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenParis
Score7576
Museums within 10 km83185
Museums within 2 km of centre5165
Share of museums within 2 km %6135
Unesco sites within 50 km54
Nightlife. Paris leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenParis
Score6788
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3843,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8061,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5845
Nightclubs within 4 km64201
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenParis
Score5048
Protected land share 50 km %528
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 4 points.4
CopenhagenParis
Score7175
Tourist attractions within 2 km5489
Park area within 2 km138 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenParis
Score7494
Notable places within 2 km273865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenParis
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenParis
Score5566
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months31
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 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

MeasureCopenhagenParis
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 m27 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenParis
City population667,0992,103,778
People per km²7,33919,960
Museums within 10 km72251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Distinct cuisines in the centre82169
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.