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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Krakow?

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

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Krakow for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Aarhus leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Krakow 55: Aarhus leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Krakow 62: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Krakow 58: Aarhus leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Krakow 74: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus and Krakow are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Krakow 36: Aarhus leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Krakow.

Your match

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

Aarhus
52match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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
17 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusKrakow
Official languageDanishPolish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m219 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusKrakow
City population290,598804,237
People per km²3,1932,459
Museums within 10 km17113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.