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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Alicante?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Aarhus for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Aarhus’s own page.

Choose Alicante for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Alicante’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Aarhus 34, Alicante 82: Alicante leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Alicante 67: Alicante leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Alicante 46: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Alicante 60: Alicante leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Alicante 63: Alicante leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Alicante 72: Alicante leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Alicante 68: Aarhus leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Alicante 66: Aarhus leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Alicante 44: Aarhus leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Alicante 60: Alicante leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Alicante 37: Aarhus leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Alicante 40: Aarhus leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Alicante.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Aarhus
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Aarhus in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
17 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Alicante in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Aarhus's temperatures are measured 30 km from the centre, at Tirstrup.

Aarhus has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre15 non-stop destinationsAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.