VacationSelector

Aarhus or Melbourne?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

AarhusMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 4 points.4
AarhusMelbourne
Score5955
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2819
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 22 points.22
AarhusMelbourne
Score5375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 11 points.11
AarhusMelbourne
Score3849
Museums within 10 km2642
Museums within 2 km of centre2024
Share of museums within 2 km %7757
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 34 points.34
AarhusMelbourne
Score4074
Drinking venues within 4 km3821,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3301,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8662
Nightclubs within 4 km15124
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 15 points.15
AarhusMelbourne
Score2843
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6881
Park area within 2 km72 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 27 points.27
AarhusMelbourne
Score3360
Tourist attractions within 2 km626
Park area within 2 km72 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 20 points.20
AarhusMelbourne
Score3757
Notable places within 2 km33103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Aarhus leads by 2 points.2
AarhusMelbourne
Score5250
Price level global87.890.2
Daily budget€214—
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 23 points.23
AarhusMelbourne
Score5376
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusMelbourne
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 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.

Before you go

MeasureAarhusMelbourne
Official languageDanishEnglish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation6 m31 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusMelbourne
City population290,5985,350,705
People per km²3,193535
Museums within 10 km1742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3786
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.