Weekly note

Copenhagen or London?

958 km apart, in Denmark and United Kingdom. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Copenhagen is the better pick in June to July and September; London in February; either in March to May, August and October to November. December to January are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Copenhagen 4° 9d 4° 7d 7° 8d 11° 5d 15° 7d 20° 6d 21° 9d 21° 9d 18° 7d 13° 10d 8° 7d 5° 9d
London 8° 10d 10° 10d 12° 8d 15° 5d 18° 7d 22° 7d 24° 7d 23° 6d 20° 9d 16° 10d 11° 9d 9° 11d
Pick neitherLondoneithereithereitherCopenhagenCopenhageneitherCopenhageneithereitherneither

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

958 km as the crow flies, about 2h 05m in the air.By bus, about 20h 33m · FlixBus N380 · RJ.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.