VacationSelector

Copenhagen or San Jose?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

CopenhagenSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 46 points.46
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score548
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance1 km14 km
Water distance1 km14 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 32 points.32
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score7341
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3716
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 49 points.49
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score7526
Museums within 10 km8320
Museums within 2 km of centre519
Share of museums within 2 km %6145
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 36 points.36
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score6731
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre80688
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5838
Nightclubs within 4 km6416
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score5070
Protected land share 50 km %526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %3991
Park area within 2 km138 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 38 points.38
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score7133
Tourist attractions within 2 km542
Park area within 2 km138 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 60 points.60
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score7414
Notable places within 2 km2739
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score5243
Price level global87.8100
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 30 points.30
CopenhagenSan Jose
Score5585
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months38
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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenSan Jose
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 35 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
5 h 15 m
€252-262
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 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

MeasureCopenhagenSan Jose
Official languageDanish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m25 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenSan Jose
City population667,0991,013,240
People per km²7,3392,167
Museums within 10 km7219
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8230
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.