VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Seattle?

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 museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Seattle
52
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.

CopenhagenSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenSeattle
Score5460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km17100
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenSeattle
Score7375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3735
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 39 points.39
CopenhagenSeattle
Score7536
Museums within 10 km8328
Museums within 2 km of centre5117
Share of museums within 2 km %6161
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenSeattle
Score6757
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5880
Nightclubs within 4 km6434
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenSeattle
Score5040
Protected land share 50 km %59
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3980
Park area within 2 km138 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenSeattle
Score7146
Tourist attractions within 2 km5417
Park area within 2 km138 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenSeattle
Score7452
Notable places within 2 km27376
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenSeattle
Score5243
Price level global87.8100
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenSeattle
Score5561
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
3 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 45 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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

MeasureCopenhagenSeattle
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 m40 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenSeattle
City population667,099737,015
People per km²7,3391,996
Museums within 10 km7227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8278
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.