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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Belfast?

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

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Belfast for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’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, Belfast 20: Aarhus leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Belfast 50: Aarhus leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Belfast 55: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Belfast 50: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Belfast 74: Belfast leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Belfast 66: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Belfast 58: Aarhus leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Belfast 62: Aarhus leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Belfast 45: Aarhus leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Belfast 48: Belfast leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus and Belfast are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Belfast 25: Aarhus leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Belfast.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Aarhus
52match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Belfast
51match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 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). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

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 centre15 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.