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Copenhagen or Valencia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Copenhagen
63
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CopenhagenValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenValencia
Score5467
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1712
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenValencia
Score7378
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3733
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenValencia
Score7555
Museums within 10 km8359
Museums within 2 km of centre5126
Share of museums within 2 km %6144
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
CopenhagenValencia
Score6770
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5863
Nightclubs within 4 km64108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
CopenhagenValencia
Score5053
Protected land share 50 km %510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3964
Park area within 2 km138 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenValencia
Score7142
Tourist attractions within 2 km5412
Park area within 2 km138 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenValencia
Score7452
Notable places within 2 km27378
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenValencia
Score5271
Price level global87.860.8
Daily budget€214€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenValencia
Score5584
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm7 mm to 70 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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 133 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 133 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureCopenhagenValencia
Official languageDanishSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenValencia
City population667,099840,792
People per km²7,3396,242
Museums within 10 km7246
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8292
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.