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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Aarhus or New York?

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

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New York for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: New York leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, New York 92: New York leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, New York 89: New York leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, New York 97: New York leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, New York 55: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, New York 68: New York leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Aarhus and New York are level on 70.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, New York 82: New York leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, New York 97: New York leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, New York 12: Aarhus leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, New York 99: New York leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, New York 42: Aarhus leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and New York.

Your match

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

Aarhus
52match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on nightlife and shopping 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
17 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
15 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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusNew York
Official languageDanish-
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m25 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusNew York
City population290,5988,804,190
People per km²3,1937,256
Museums within 10 km17157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.