VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Toronto?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

CopenhagenToronto
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenToronto
Score5443
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km1758
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenToronto
Score7382
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1832,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3739
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 32 points.32
CopenhagenToronto
Score7543
Museums within 10 km8335
Museums within 2 km of centre5125
Share of museums within 2 km %6171
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenToronto
Score6769
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5864
Nightclubs within 4 km64103
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 24 points.24
CopenhagenToronto
Score5026
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 14 points.14
CopenhagenToronto
Score7157
Tourist attractions within 2 km5423
Park area within 2 km138 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenToronto
Score7461
Notable places within 2 km273128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenToronto
Score5254
Price level global87.884
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Copenhagen and Toronto are level on 55.
CopenhagenToronto
Score5555
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 10 m
€57-93
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureCopenhagenToronto
Official languageDanishFrench, English
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m76 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenToronto
City population667,0992,794,356
People per km²7,3394,434
Museums within 10 km7232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre82102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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.