VacationSelector

Copenhagen or York?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
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.

CopenhagenYork
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenYork
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km172
Coast distance1 km50 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenYork
Score7354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3731
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenYork
Score7546
Museums within 10 km8318
Museums within 2 km of centre5116
Share of museums within 2 km %6189
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 24 points.24
CopenhagenYork
Score6743
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5878
Nightclubs within 4 km6414
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenYork
Score5033
Protected land share 50 km %517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %3995
Park area within 2 km138 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 28 points.28
CopenhagenYork
Score7143
Tourist attractions within 2 km5413
Park area within 2 km138 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 35 points.35
CopenhagenYork
Score7439
Notable places within 2 km27337
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. York leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenYork
Score5254
Price level global87.884.9
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. York leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenYork
Score5556
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months31
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 35 m
€144-151
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AgadirAGA
4 h 35 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureCopenhagenYork
Official languageDanishEnglish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation14 m25 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenYork
City population667,099208,400
People per km²7,339766
Museums within 10 km7224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8254
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.