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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Hiroshima?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Aarhus for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Aarhus’s own page.

Choose Hiroshima for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Aarhus 34, Hiroshima 30: Aarhus leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Hiroshima 60: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus and Hiroshima are level on 45.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Hiroshima 62: Hiroshima leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Hiroshima 60: Aarhus leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Hiroshima 74: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Hiroshima 38: Aarhus leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Hiroshima.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Aarhus
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Aarhus in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
17 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Aarhus's temperatures are measured 30 km from the centre, at Tirstrup.

Aarhus has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusHiroshima
Official languageDanishJapanese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation6 m3 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusHiroshima
City population290,5981,198,021
People per km²3,1931,324
Museums within 10 km1718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.