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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Beijing?

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

  • beaches
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Beijing for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’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, Beijing 6: Aarhus leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Beijing 81: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Beijing 93: Beijing leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Beijing 58: Beijing leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Beijing 60: Beijing leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Beijing 85: Beijing leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Beijing 64: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Beijing 69: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Beijing 72: Beijing leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Beijing 55: Beijing leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Beijing.

Your match

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

Aarhus
52match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusBeijing
Official languageDanishPutonghua
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation6 m43 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusBeijing
City population290,59821,893,095
People per km²3,1931,334
Museums within 10 km1783
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.