VacationSelector

Aarhus or Faro?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

AarhusFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 2 points.2
AarhusFaro
Score5961
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km2813
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 9 points.9
AarhusFaro
Score5344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Aarhus leads by 16 points.16
AarhusFaro
Score3822
Museums within 10 km269
Museums within 2 km of centre208
Share of museums within 2 km %7789
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 19 points.19
AarhusFaro
Score4021
Drinking venues within 4 km382143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8686
Nightclubs within 4 km158
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 29 points.29
AarhusFaro
Score2857
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6842
Park area within 2 km72 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 3 points.3
AarhusFaro
Score3336
Tourist attractions within 2 km610
Park area within 2 km72 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Aarhus leads by 15 points.15
AarhusFaro
Score3722
Notable places within 2 km3314
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 22 points.22
AarhusFaro
Score5274
Price level global87.855.9
Daily budget€214€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 30 points.30
AarhusFaro
Score5383
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months36
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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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
3 h 40 m
€134-165
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureAarhusFaro
Official languageDanishPortuguese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m10 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusFaro
City population290,59864,560
People per km²3,193319
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3734
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.