VacationSelector

Aarhus or Alicante?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on sights concentration with your weighting.

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AarhusAlicante
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 18 points.18
AarhusAlicante
Score5977
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2833
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 13 points.13
AarhusAlicante
Score5366
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427867
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 4 points.4
AarhusAlicante
Score3842
Museums within 10 km2614
Museums within 2 km of centre2011
Share of museums within 2 km %7779
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 11 points.11
AarhusAlicante
Score4051
Drinking venues within 4 km382591
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330488
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8683
Nightclubs within 4 km1554
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AarhusAlicante
Score2840
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6859
Park area within 2 km72 hectares60 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 9 points.9
AarhusAlicante
Score3342
Tourist attractions within 2 km613
Park area within 2 km72 hectares60 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Aarhus leads by 11 points.11
AarhusAlicante
Score3726
Notable places within 2 km3318
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 19 points.19
AarhusAlicante
Score5271
Price level global87.860.8
Daily budget€214€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 34 points.34
AarhusAlicante
Score5387
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C17 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm3 mm to 52 mm
Dry months311
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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
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusAlicante
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 127 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
VLC · 127 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

MeasureAarhusAlicante
Official languageDanishSpanish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m3 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusAlicante
City population290,598366,221
People per km²3,1931,819
Museums within 10 km178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3752
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.