VacationSelector

Aarhus or Belfast?

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 and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

AarhusBelfast
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 11 points.11
AarhusBelfast
Score5948
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2810
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 3 points.3
AarhusBelfast
Score5356
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427432
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Aarhus leads by 9 points.9
AarhusBelfast
Score3829
Museums within 10 km2618
Museums within 2 km of centre206
Share of museums within 2 km %7733
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 8 points.8
AarhusBelfast
Score4048
Drinking venues within 4 km382550
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330348
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8663
Nightclubs within 4 km1529
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 25 points.25
AarhusBelfast
Score2853
Protected land share 50 km %219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %6865
Park area within 2 km72 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 15 points.15
AarhusBelfast
Score3348
Tourist attractions within 2 km616
Park area within 2 km72 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 5 points.5
AarhusBelfast
Score3742
Notable places within 2 km3343
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
AarhusBelfast
Score5254
Price level global87.884.9
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Aarhus leads by 2 points.2
AarhusBelfast
Score5351
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C6.9 °C to 19 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusBelfast
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BFS · 20 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

MeasureAarhusBelfast
Official languageDanishEnglish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation6 m3 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusBelfast
City population290,598345,006
People per km²3,1933,000
Museums within 10 km178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3744
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.