VacationSelector

Aarhus or Limassol?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

AarhusLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 20 points.20
AarhusLimassol
Score5979
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km2827
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 10 points.10
AarhusLimassol
Score5343
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2619
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 6 points.6
AarhusLimassol
Score3844
Museums within 10 km2617
Museums within 2 km of centre2010
Share of museums within 2 km %7759
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 1 points.1
AarhusLimassol
Score4039
Drinking venues within 4 km382340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8675
Nightclubs within 4 km1520
Nature & day trips. Aarhus leads by 6 points.6
AarhusLimassol
Score2822
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6849
Park area within 2 km72 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus leads by 17 points.17
AarhusLimassol
Score3316
Tourist attractions within 2 km63
Park area within 2 km72 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Aarhus leads by 23 points.23
AarhusLimassol
Score3714
Notable places within 2 km339
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 18 points.18
AarhusLimassol
Score5270
Price level global87.861.4
Daily budget€214€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 32 points.32
AarhusLimassol
Score5385
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months38
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
ChaniaCHQ
3 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureAarhusLimassol
Official languageDanishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m10 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusLimassol
City population290,598107,970
People per km²3,1932,405
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3728
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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.