VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Porto?

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, 1 point apart

Copenhagen
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CopenhagenPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenPorto
Score5460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1752
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenPorto
Score7368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3727
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 4 points.4
CopenhagenPorto
Score7571
Museums within 10 km83101
Museums within 2 km of centre5157
Share of museums within 2 km %6156
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenPorto
Score6758
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5863
Nightclubs within 4 km6438
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenPorto
Score5033
Protected land share 50 km %57
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3961
Park area within 2 km138 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenPorto
Score7165
Tourist attractions within 2 km54122
Park area within 2 km138 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenPorto
Score7454
Notable places within 2 km27385
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenPorto
Score5274
Price level global87.855.9
Daily budget€214€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 16 points.16
CopenhagenPorto
Score5571
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm22 mm to 181 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 0 m
€192-225
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 35 m
€184-306
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureCopenhagenPorto
Official languageDanishPortuguese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m104 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenPorto
City population667,099231,800
People per km²7,3395,599
Museums within 10 km7242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre8270
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.