VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Rio de Janeiro?

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 places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
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.

CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 46 points.46
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score54100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1761
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score7354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3716
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score7569
Museums within 10 km83110
Museums within 2 km of centre5151
Share of museums within 2 km %6146
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score6757
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5862
Nightclubs within 4 km6450
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 12 points.12
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score5062
Protected land share 50 km %521
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %3957
Park area within 2 km138 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 12 points.12
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score7159
Tourist attractions within 2 km5430
Park area within 2 km138 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 18 points.18
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score7456
Notable places within 2 km27398
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score5281
Price level global87.846.1
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 30 points.30
CopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Score5585
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenRio de Janeiro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 35 m
€184-306
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 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

MeasureCopenhagenRio de Janeiro
Official languageDanishPortuguese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation14 m31 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenRio de Janeiro
City population667,0996,211,223
People per km²7,3394,930
Museums within 10 km7270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre8227
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.