VacationSelector

Aarhus or Munich?

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.

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AarhusMunich
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusMunich
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km286
Coast distance0 km579 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 20 points.20
AarhusMunich
Score5373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 23 points.23
AarhusMunich
Score3861
Museums within 10 km2674
Museums within 2 km of centre2048
Share of museums within 2 km %7765
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Munich leads by 27 points.27
AarhusMunich
Score4067
Drinking venues within 4 km3821,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8657
Nightclubs within 4 km15103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 20 points.20
AarhusMunich
Score2848
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 46 points.46
AarhusMunich
Score3379
Tourist attractions within 2 km680
Park area within 2 km72 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 31 points.31
AarhusMunich
Score3768
Notable places within 2 km33196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 8 points.8
AarhusMunich
Score5260
Price level global87.875.9
Daily budget€214€163
Year-round weather. Munich leads by 3 points.3
AarhusMunich
Score5356
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusMunich
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 0 m
€207-225
MUC · 29 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 35 m
€237-292
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureAarhusMunich
Official languageDanishGerman
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m519 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusMunich
City population290,5981,510,378
People per km²3,1934,861
Museums within 10 km1774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3789
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.