VacationSelector

Aarhus or Brussels?

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.

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

AarhusBrussels
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusBrussels
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km280
Coast distance0 km56 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 28 points.28
AarhusBrussels
Score5381
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,779
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2644
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 42 points.42
AarhusBrussels
Score3880
Museums within 10 km26120
Museums within 2 km of centre2059
Share of museums within 2 km %7749
Unesco sites within 50 km010
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 28 points.28
AarhusBrussels
Score4068
Drinking venues within 4 km3821,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330862
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8661
Nightclubs within 4 km1584
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 3 points.3
AarhusBrussels
Score2831
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 23 points.23
AarhusBrussels
Score3356
Tourist attractions within 2 km628
Park area within 2 km72 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 36 points.36
AarhusBrussels
Score3773
Notable places within 2 km33254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 8 points.8
AarhusBrussels
Score5260
Price level global87.876.2
Daily budget€214€180
Year-round weather. Brussels leads by 4 points.4
AarhusBrussels
Score5357
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C6.1 °C to 23.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm47 mm to 90 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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusBrussels
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 35 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 45 m
€177-223
BRU · 11 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAarhusBrussels
Official languageDanishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m70 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusBrussels
City population290,598195,546
People per km²3,1935,908
Museums within 10 km17105
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km010
Distinct cuisines in the centre37109
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.