VacationSelector

Aarhus or Cannes?

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 nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Cannes
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

AarhusCannes
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 14 points.14
AarhusCannes
Score5973
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2868
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 3 points.3
AarhusCannes
Score5350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427473
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2619
Museums & heritage. Aarhus leads by 2 points.2
AarhusCannes
Score3836
Museums within 10 km2631
Museums within 2 km of centre205
Share of museums within 2 km %7716
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 12 points.12
AarhusCannes
Score4028
Drinking venues within 4 km382188
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330164
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8687
Nightclubs within 4 km1519
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
AarhusCannes
Score2833
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %6853
Park area within 2 km72 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus leads by 8 points.8
AarhusCannes
Score3325
Tourist attractions within 2 km67
Park area within 2 km72 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
AarhusCannes
Score3756
Notable places within 2 km3395
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 10 points.10
AarhusCannes
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 21 points.21
AarhusCannes
Score5374
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months33
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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
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusCannes
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 146 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

MeasureAarhusCannes
Official languageDanishFrench
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 m0 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusCannes
City population290,59874,350
People per km²3,1933,793
Museums within 10 km1716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3738
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.