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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Wat Chiang Man in the old city, Chiang Mai
Chiang MaiWat Chiang Man in the old city

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Chiang Mai by Gije Cho, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Chiang Mai?

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

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Chiang Mai for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Chiang Mai’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, Chiang Mai 6: Aarhus leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Chiang Mai 78: Chiang Mai leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Chiang Mai 65: Chiang Mai leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus and Chiang Mai are level on 45.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Chiang Mai 73: Chiang Mai leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Chiang Mai 48: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Chiang Mai 55: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Chiang Mai 38: Aarhus leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Chiang Mai 62: Chiang Mai leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Chiang Mai 90: Chiang Mai leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Chiang Mai 30: Aarhus leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Chiang Mai 82: Chiang Mai leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Chiang Mai.

Your match

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

Aarhus
52match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Chiang Mai
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Chiang Mai in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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). Chiang Mai: 1991-2020 normals, Chiang Mai (0.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusChiang Mai
Official languageDanishThai
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Baht (THB)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation6 m310 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsChiang Mai International Airport (CNX)3 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusChiang Mai
City population290,5981,198,000
People per km²3,1932,958
Museums within 10 km176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.