VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Venice?

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 nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

CopenhagenVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 15 points.15
CopenhagenVenice
Score5469
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1720
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 28 points.28
CopenhagenVenice
Score7345
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3710
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 3 points.3
CopenhagenVenice
Score7572
Museums within 10 km8357
Museums within 2 km of centre5145
Share of museums within 2 km %6179
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 32 points.32
CopenhagenVenice
Score6735
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5889
Nightclubs within 4 km643
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 33 points.33
CopenhagenVenice
Score5017
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3970
Park area within 2 km138 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 14 points.14
CopenhagenVenice
Score7157
Tourist attractions within 2 km5472
Park area within 2 km138 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenVenice
Score7483
Notable places within 2 km273464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 16 points.16
CopenhagenVenice
Score5268
Price level global87.864.9
Daily budget€214€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenVenice
Score5566
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months32
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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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureCopenhagenVenice
Official languageDanishItalian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m2 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenVenice
City population667,099250,369
People per km²7,339602
Museums within 10 km7252
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre8246
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.