VacationSelector

Aarhus or Dubrovnik?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

AarhusDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 18 points.18
AarhusDubrovnik
Score5977
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2843
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 15 points.15
AarhusDubrovnik
Score5338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2618
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
AarhusDubrovnik
Score3849
Museums within 10 km2618
Museums within 2 km of centre2017
Share of museums within 2 km %7794
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 20 points.20
AarhusDubrovnik
Score4020
Drinking venues within 4 km382128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8686
Nightclubs within 4 km1513
Nature & day trips. Aarhus leads by 23 points.23
AarhusDubrovnik
Score285
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %6851
Park area within 2 km72 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus leads by 12 points.12
AarhusDubrovnik
Score3321
Tourist attractions within 2 km612
Park area within 2 km72 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 7 points.7
AarhusDubrovnik
Score3744
Notable places within 2 km3348
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 28 points.28
AarhusDubrovnik
Score5280
Price level global87.848.5
Daily budget€214€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.12
AarhusDubrovnik
Score5365
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusDubrovnik
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 25 m
€116-147
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SJJ · 133 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

MeasureAarhusDubrovnik
Official languageDanishCroatian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m10 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusDubrovnik
City population290,59841,562
People per km²3,193
Museums within 10 km177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3732
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.