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Copenhagen or Thessaloniki?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
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.

CopenhagenThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score5455
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score7350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3715
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 26 points.26
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score7549
Museums within 10 km8334
Museums within 2 km of centre5122
Share of museums within 2 km %6165
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen and Thessaloniki are level on 67.
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score6767
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5857
Nightclubs within 4 km6461
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.15
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score5065
Protected land share 50 km %525
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3983
Park area within 2 km138 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 30 points.30
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score7141
Tourist attractions within 2 km5416
Park area within 2 km138 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 18 points.18
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score7456
Notable places within 2 km27398
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score5274
Price level global87.855.8
Daily budget€214€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenThessaloniki
Score5572
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months39
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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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenThessaloniki
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€159-200
2 stops
CPH · 8 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
3 h 10 m
€138-200
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
€214-241
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€94-142
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureCopenhagenThessaloniki
Official languageDanishGreek
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m6 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenThessaloniki
City population667,099309,617
People per km²7,33916,042
Museums within 10 km7231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8245
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.