VacationSelector

Aarhus or Milan?

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.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AarhusMilan
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusMilan
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km284
Coast distance0 km120 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 17 points.17
AarhusMilan
Score5370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2620
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 36 points.36
AarhusMilan
Score3874
Museums within 10 km2687
Museums within 2 km of centre2055
Share of museums within 2 km %7763
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Milan leads by 35 points.35
AarhusMilan
Score4075
Drinking venues within 4 km3822,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8643
Nightclubs within 4 km1570
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 37 points.37
AarhusMilan
Score2865
Protected land share 50 km %230
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 44 points.44
AarhusMilan
Score3377
Tourist attractions within 2 km676
Park area within 2 km72 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 37 points.37
AarhusMilan
Score3774
Notable places within 2 km33266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 16 points.16
AarhusMilan
Score5268
Price level global87.864.9
Daily budget€214€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 11 points.11
AarhusMilan
Score5364
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusMilan
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€96
MXP · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

MeasureAarhusMilan
Official languageDanishItalian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m138 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusMilan
City population290,5981,354,196
People per km²3,1937,453
Museums within 10 km1787
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3779
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.