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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Hoi An?

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
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Hoi An for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Hoi An’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, Hoi An 72: Hoi An leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Hoi An 68: Hoi An leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Hoi An 66: Hoi An leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Hoi An 28: Aarhus leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Hoi An 63: Hoi An leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Hoi An 50: Aarhus leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Hoi An 58: Aarhus leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Hoi An 48: Aarhus leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Hoi An 57: Hoi An leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Hoi An 88: Hoi An leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Hoi An 24: Aarhus leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Hoi An 65: Hoi An leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Hoi An.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on prices and beaches 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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusHoi An
Official languageDanishVietnamese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Dong (VND)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation6 m13 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusHoi An
City population290,598121,716
People per km²3,193-
Museums within 10 km175
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.