VacationSelector

Aarhus or Amsterdam?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AarhusAmsterdam
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 19 points.19
AarhusAmsterdam
Score5940
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2833
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 30 points.30
AarhusAmsterdam
Score5383
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,957
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2644
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 42 points.42
AarhusAmsterdam
Score3880
Museums within 10 km2698
Museums within 2 km of centre2069
Share of museums within 2 km %7770
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 30 points.30
AarhusAmsterdam
Score4070
Drinking venues within 4 km3821,543
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3301,078
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8670
Nightclubs within 4 km15114
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 32 points.32
AarhusAmsterdam
Score2860
Protected land share 50 km %221
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6882
Park area within 2 km72 hectares49 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 35 points.35
AarhusAmsterdam
Score3368
Tourist attractions within 2 km674
Park area within 2 km72 hectares49 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 31 points.31
AarhusAmsterdam
Score3768
Notable places within 2 km33196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 6 points.6
AarhusAmsterdam
Score5258
Price level global87.879.2
Daily budget€214€181
Year-round weather. Amsterdam leads by 4 points.4
AarhusAmsterdam
Score5357
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C6.1 °C to 23.1 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusAmsterdam
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€203-231
AMS · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 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

MeasureAarhusAmsterdam
Official languageDanishDutch
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 or 911
Elevation6 m-2 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusAmsterdam
City population290,598921,468
People per km²3,1934,208
Museums within 10 km17101
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3798
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.