VacationSelector

Aarhus or Edinburgh?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

AarhusEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 4 points.4
AarhusEdinburgh
Score5955
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2820
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 17 points.17
AarhusEdinburgh
Score5370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 19 points.19
AarhusEdinburgh
Score3857
Museums within 10 km2630
Museums within 2 km of centre2022
Share of museums within 2 km %7773
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 24 points.24
AarhusEdinburgh
Score4064
Drinking venues within 4 km3821,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8674
Nightclubs within 4 km1565
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 7 points.7
AarhusEdinburgh
Score2835
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6885
Park area within 2 km72 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 39 points.39
AarhusEdinburgh
Score3372
Tourist attractions within 2 km687
Park area within 2 km72 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 23 points.23
AarhusEdinburgh
Score3760
Notable places within 2 km33126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
AarhusEdinburgh
Score5254
Price level global87.884.9
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Aarhus leads by 2 points.2
AarhusEdinburgh
Score5351
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusEdinburgh
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
4 h 35 m
€195-238
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureAarhusEdinburgh
Official languageDanishEnglish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation6 m47 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusEdinburgh
City population290,598488,050
People per km²3,1931,884
Museums within 10 km1732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3778
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.