VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Salzburg?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on 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.

CopenhagenSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km179
Coast distance1 km653 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 24 points.24
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score7349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3723
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 15 points.15
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score7560
Museums within 10 km8342
Museums within 2 km of centre5127
Share of museums within 2 km %6164
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 31 points.31
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score6736
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5882
Nightclubs within 4 km6416
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score5027
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score7148
Tourist attractions within 2 km5417
Park area within 2 km138 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 28 points.28
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score7446
Notable places within 2 km27354
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score5259
Price level global87.876.9
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Copenhagen leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenSalzburg
Score5554
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenSalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€159-200
2 stops
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureCopenhagenSalzburg
Official languageDanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation14 m424 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenSalzburg
City population667,099155,021
People per km²7,3392,360
Museums within 10 km7238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre8250
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.