VacationSelector

Aarhus or Beijing?

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.

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AarhusBeijing
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusBeijing
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km280
Coast distance0 km145 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 25 points.25
AarhusBeijing
Score3863
Museums within 10 km2695
Museums within 2 km of centre2015
Share of museums within 2 km %7716
Unesco sites within 50 km06
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Beijing leads by 7 points.7
AarhusBeijing
Score2835
Protected land share 50 km %23
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares143 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 44 points.44
AarhusBeijing
Score3377
Tourist attractions within 2 km641
Park area within 2 km72 hectares143 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km112
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 13 points.13
AarhusBeijing
Score3750
Notable places within 2 km3369
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 27 points.27
AarhusBeijing
Score5279
Price level global87.849
Daily budget€214—
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 13 points.13
AarhusBeijing
Score5366
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C2.2 °C to 31.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm3 mm to 163 mm
Dry months38
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
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). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusBeijing
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 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

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 centre14 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3729
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.