VacationSelector

Aarhus or Ghent?

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.

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

AarhusGhent
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 33 points.33
AarhusGhent
Score5926
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km288
Coast distance0 km32 km
Water distance0 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 17 points.17
AarhusGhent
Score5370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2649
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 20 points.20
AarhusGhent
Score3858
Museums within 10 km2624
Museums within 2 km of centre2020
Share of museums within 2 km %7783
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 9 points.9
AarhusGhent
Score4049
Drinking venues within 4 km382570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8678
Nightclubs within 4 km1526
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
AarhusGhent
Score2834
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %6887
Park area within 2 km72 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 17 points.17
AarhusGhent
Score3350
Tourist attractions within 2 km619
Park area within 2 km72 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 9 points.9
AarhusGhent
Score3746
Notable places within 2 km3355
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
AarhusGhent
Score5260
Price level global87.876.2
Daily budget€214€180
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
AarhusGhent
Score5356
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm35 mm to 79 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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
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). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusGhent
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureAarhusGhent
Official languageDanishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m12 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusGhent
City population290,598272,657
People per km²3,1931,728
Museums within 10 km1730
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3783
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.