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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Montevideo?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus and Montevideo are level on 57.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Montevideo 54: Aarhus leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Montevideo 34: Aarhus leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Montevideo 55: Aarhus leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Montevideo 55: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Montevideo 54: Aarhus leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Montevideo 36: Aarhus leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Montevideo 38: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Aarhus
Best match
52match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusMontevideo
Official languageDanish-
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m41 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusMontevideo
City population290,5981,302,954
People per km²3,1931,785
Museums within 10 km1736
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.