VacationSelector

Aarhus or Kyoto?

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 and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

AarhusKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 42 points.42
AarhusKyoto
Score5917
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km280
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 31 points.31
AarhusKyoto
Score5384
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4275,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 34 points.34
AarhusKyoto
Score3872
Museums within 10 km26132
Museums within 2 km of centre2051
Share of museums within 2 km %7739
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 40 points.40
AarhusKyoto
Score4080
Drinking venues within 4 km3823,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3302,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8673
Nightclubs within 4 km1526
Nature & day trips. Aarhus leads by 6 points.6
AarhusKyoto
Score2822
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 33 points.33
AarhusKyoto
Score3366
Tourist attractions within 2 km662
Park area within 2 km72 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 15 points.15
AarhusKyoto
Score3752
Notable places within 2 km3379
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 18 points.18
AarhusKyoto
Score5270
Price level global87.862.4
Daily budget€214—
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 9 points.9
AarhusKyoto
Score5362
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months30
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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusKyoto
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 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

MeasureAarhusKyoto
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 m51 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusKyoto
City population290,5981,463,723
People per km²3,1931,768
Museums within 10 km1776
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3789
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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.