VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Rotterdam?

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 sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
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.

CopenhagenRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score5437
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1722
Coast distance1 km24 km
Water distance1 km24 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score7372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3746
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 15 points.15
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score7560
Museums within 10 km8341
Museums within 2 km of centre5120
Share of museums within 2 km %6149
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 18 points.18
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score6749
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5870
Nightclubs within 4 km6440
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 8 points.8
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score5042
Protected land share 50 km %510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3979
Park area within 2 km138 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score7162
Tourist attractions within 2 km5427
Park area within 2 km138 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score7451
Notable places within 2 km27374
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score5258
Price level global87.879.2
Daily budget€214€181
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenRotterdam
Score5556
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 10 m
€57-93
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€155-209
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 25 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureCopenhagenRotterdam
Official languageDanishDutch
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation14 m10 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenRotterdam
City population667,099664,311
People per km²7,3392,080
Museums within 10 km7240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre8277
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.