VacationSelector

Aarhus or Dublin?

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 and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AarhusDublin
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 10 points.10
AarhusDublin
Score5949
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2811
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 17 points.17
AarhusDublin
Score5370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427920
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2637
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 17 points.17
AarhusDublin
Score3855
Museums within 10 km2647
Museums within 2 km of centre2037
Share of museums within 2 km %7779
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 24 points.24
AarhusDublin
Score4064
Drinking venues within 4 km3821,239
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330934
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8675
Nightclubs within 4 km1540
Nature & day trips. Aarhus leads by 2 points.2
AarhusDublin
Score2826
Protected land share 50 km %23
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6862
Park area within 2 km72 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 21 points.21
AarhusDublin
Score3354
Tourist attractions within 2 km641
Park area within 2 km72 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 25 points.25
AarhusDublin
Score3762
Notable places within 2 km33141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 5 points.5
AarhusDublin
Score5257
Price level global87.880.2
Daily budget€214€187
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
AarhusDublin
Score5354
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C8.2 °C to 19.5 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusDublin
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 15 m
€200-272
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 10 m
€86-108
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 35 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BFS · 145 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

MeasureAarhusDublin
Official languageDanishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m20 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusDublin
City population290,598592,713
People per km²3,1935,154
Museums within 10 km1740
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3774
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.