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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Nairobi?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Nairobi for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Nairobi’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, Nairobi 4: Aarhus leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Nairobi 48: Aarhus leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Nairobi 35: Aarhus leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Nairobi 58: Nairobi leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Nairobi 84: Nairobi leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Nairobi 28: Aarhus leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Nairobi 55: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Nairobi 20: Aarhus leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Nairobi 45: Aarhus leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Nairobi 60: Nairobi leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Nairobi 35: Aarhus leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Nairobi 25: Aarhus leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Nairobi.

Your match

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

Aarhus
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Nairobi
41match

Wins on prices 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

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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). Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusNairobi
Official languageDanishEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation6 m1,661 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusNairobi
City population290,5985,545,000
People per km²3,1937,967
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.