VacationSelector

Aarhus or Lyon?

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 with your weighting.

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AarhusLyon
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusLyon
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2826
Coast distance0 km253 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 26 points.26
AarhusLyon
Score5379
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2640
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 17 points.17
AarhusLyon
Score3855
Museums within 10 km2653
Museums within 2 km of centre2025
Share of museums within 2 km %7747
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 18 points.18
AarhusLyon
Score4058
Drinking venues within 4 km382866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8671
Nightclubs within 4 km1547
Nature & day trips. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
AarhusLyon
Score2833
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 26 points.26
AarhusLyon
Score3359
Tourist attractions within 2 km625
Park area within 2 km72 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 17 points.17
AarhusLyon
Score3754
Notable places within 2 km3386
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 10 points.10
AarhusLyon
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 11 points.11
AarhusLyon
Score5364
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusLyon
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureAarhusLyon
Official languageDanishFrench
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m160 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusLyon
City population290,598519,127
People per km²3,19310,838
Museums within 10 km1742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre37148
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.