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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
AntalyaThe old harbour in Kaleiçi

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Antalya by Furkan Tumer, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Antalya?

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

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

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

Choose Antalya for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Antalya’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, Antalya 82: Antalya leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus and Antalya are level on 57.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Antalya 55: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Antalya 48: Antalya leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Antalya 83: Antalya leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Antalya 78: Antalya leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Antalya 74: Antalya leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Antalya 50: Aarhus leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Antalya 44: Aarhus leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Antalya 62: Antalya leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Antalya 40: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Antalya 62: Antalya leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Antalya.

Your match

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

Aarhus
52match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Antalya
Best match
61match

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

Antalya in July

35 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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). Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusAntalya
Official languageDanishTurkish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m30 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusAntalya
City population290,5982,426,356
People per km²3,1931,712
Museums within 10 km175
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.