VacationSelector

Aarhus or Cancun?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

AarhusCancun
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 38 points.38
AarhusCancun
Score5997
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2823
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 1 points.1
AarhusCancun
Score5354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427681
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2618
Museums & heritage. Aarhus leads by 18 points.18
AarhusCancun
Score3820
Museums within 10 km261
Museums within 2 km of centre201
Share of museums within 2 km %77100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 4 points.4
AarhusCancun
Score4036
Drinking venues within 4 km382270
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8665
Nightclubs within 4 km1533
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 26 points.26
AarhusCancun
Score2854
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6845
Park area within 2 km72 hectares66 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus leads by 1 points.1
AarhusCancun
Score3332
Tourist attractions within 2 km62
Park area within 2 km72 hectares66 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Aarhus leads by 33 points.33
AarhusCancun
Score374
Notable places within 2 km335
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 24 points.24
AarhusCancun
Score5276
Price level global87.854.2
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 28 points.28
AarhusCancun
Score5381
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C26.2 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm38 mm to 224 mm
Dry months31
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusCancun
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 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

MeasureAarhusCancun
Official languageDanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m5 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusCancun
City population290,598888,797
People per km²3,193
Museums within 10 km171
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3731
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.