VacationSelector

Aarhus or Frankfurt?

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 with your weighting.

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AarhusFrankfurt
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusFrankfurt
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km284
Coast distance0 km327 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 17 points.17
AarhusFrankfurt
Score5370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,160
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 31 points.31
AarhusFrankfurt
Score3869
Museums within 10 km2679
Museums within 2 km of centre2043
Share of museums within 2 km %7754
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 19 points.19
AarhusFrankfurt
Score4059
Drinking venues within 4 km382931
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330691
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8674
Nightclubs within 4 km1556
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 36 points.36
AarhusFrankfurt
Score2864
Protected land share 50 km %228
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares124 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 35 points.35
AarhusFrankfurt
Score3368
Tourist attractions within 2 km645
Park area within 2 km72 hectares124 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 24 points.24
AarhusFrankfurt
Score3761
Notable places within 2 km33129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 8 points.8
AarhusFrankfurt
Score5260
Price level global87.875.9
Daily budget€214€163
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 9 points.9
AarhusFrankfurt
Score5362
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C5 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm38 mm to 68 mm
Dry months31
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusFrankfurt
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 20 m
€264-346
FRA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 30 m
€173-202
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 13 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 13 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

MeasureAarhusFrankfurt
Official languageDanishGerman
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 m101 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusFrankfurt
City population290,598775,790
People per km²3,1933,124
Museums within 10 km1753
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3771
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.