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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; London by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Aarhus or London?

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
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose London for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on London’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, London 25: Aarhus leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, London 84: London leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, London 94: London leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, London 88: London leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, London 57: London leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, London 90: London leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, London 82: London leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, London 85: London leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, London 95: London leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, London 15: Aarhus leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, London 98: London leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, London 40: Aarhus leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and London.

Your match

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

Aarhus
52match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

London
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping 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
No recordsunshine a day
17 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
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). London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusLondon
Official languageDanishEnglish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation6 m4 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusLondon
City population290,5988,799,728
People per km²3,1935,598
Museums within 10 km17216
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.