[Symbiote]

Some visitors to Copenhagen remark that it's surprisingly quiet for a capital city. Others say it "feels boring", which I think is partly because they associate a noisy city centre (e.g. London or Paris) with fun.

There are far fewer cars in the city centre than most cities the size of Copenhagen; enough roads are restricted to people on foot or bicycles that relatively few people try and drive to, from or through it.

[brokenmachine]

Your comment has just added Copenhagen to my list of "must-visit" cities.

[Symbiote]

Definitely wait until spring, preferably summer, unless you're attracted to damp weather.

On OpenStreetMap, the pedestrianized roads are marked in a pale blue-grey [1].

They aren't labelled the same way on Google Maps, perhaps because on the smaller pedestrian streets vehicles aren't always completely banned, just strongly discouraged by the signs, surface, layout, and attitude of pedestrians.

The OSM cycle map layer needs a few updates for consistency, but most roads outside the very centre of the city have a separate cycle lane like one of these [2], or else almost no traffic. At school time or weekends I see 5-6 year old children cycling with their parents — other cyclists will overtake more carefully. Older children make similar journeys alone.

The Netherlands is similar. Within cities, the canals lead to some different approaches, and between cities, they provide nice long-distance cycling routes. I think the Netherlands is probably the better destination for a cycling holiday, but the difference between a Dutch and Danish city doesn't matter for a city holiday.

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.6802/12.5753

[2] https://ggwash.org/view/43010/copenhagen-uses-this-one-trick...