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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule, Munich
MunichThe Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Munich by 0xd1ma, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Munich?

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

  • beaches

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

Choose Munich for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Munich’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, Munich 28: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Munich 62: Munich leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Munich 79: Munich leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Munich 56: Munich leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Munich 82: Munich leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Munich 86: Munich leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Munich 78: Munich leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Munich 86: Munich leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Munich 72: Munich leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Munich 32: Munich leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Munich 84: Munich leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Munich 62: Munich leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Munich.

Your match

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

Aarhus
52match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Munich
Best match
67match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors 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

Munich in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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 centre15 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusMunich
City population290,5981,505,036
People per km²3,1934,844
Museums within 10 km1774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.