VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Warsaw?

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 beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

CopenhagenWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1726
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score7372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3734
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 12 points.12
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score7563
Museums within 10 km83107
Museums within 2 km of centre5160
Share of museums within 2 km %6156
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score6762
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5864
Nightclubs within 4 km64104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score5055
Protected land share 50 km %527
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score7170
Tourist attractions within 2 km5442
Park area within 2 km138 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score7476
Notable places within 2 km273299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 27 points.27
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score5279
Price level global87.849
Daily budget€214€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 4 points.4
CopenhagenWarsaw
Score5559
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months36
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureCopenhagenWarsaw
Official languageDanishPolish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m118 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenWarsaw
City population667,0991,862,402
People per km²7,3393,601
Museums within 10 km72117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8276
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.