VacationSelector

Aarhus or Helsinki?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

AarhusHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 1 points.1
AarhusHelsinki
Score5960
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km28157
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 18 points.18
AarhusHelsinki
Score5371
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2638
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 11 points.11
AarhusHelsinki
Score3849
Museums within 10 km2657
Museums within 2 km of centre2023
Share of museums within 2 km %7740
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 16 points.16
AarhusHelsinki
Score4056
Drinking venues within 4 km382807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8675
Nightclubs within 4 km1540
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 14 points.14
AarhusHelsinki
Score2842
Protected land share 50 km %23
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6853
Park area within 2 km72 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 25 points.25
AarhusHelsinki
Score3358
Tourist attractions within 2 km620
Park area within 2 km72 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 36 points.36
AarhusHelsinki
Score3773
Notable places within 2 km33257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Helsinki leads by 4 points.4
AarhusHelsinki
Score5256
Price level global87.881.6
Daily budget€214€184
Year-round weather. Aarhus leads by 5 points.5
AarhusHelsinki
Score5348
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months33
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusHelsinki
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
ChaniaCHQ
3 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 84 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAarhusHelsinki
Official languageDanishFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m17 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusHelsinki
City population290,598694,392
People per km²3,1933,239
Museums within 10 km1774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.