VacationSelector

Aarhus or Nice?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AarhusNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 14 points.14
AarhusNice
Score5973
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2870
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 16 points.16
AarhusNice
Score5369
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2628
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 8 points.8
AarhusNice
Score3846
Museums within 10 km2627
Museums within 2 km of centre2014
Share of museums within 2 km %7752
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Nice leads by 4 points.4
AarhusNice
Score4044
Drinking venues within 4 km382428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8691
Nightclubs within 4 km1526
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 29 points.29
AarhusNice
Score2857
Protected land share 50 km %224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %6862
Park area within 2 km72 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus leads by 3 points.3
AarhusNice
Score3330
Tourist attractions within 2 km64
Park area within 2 km72 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 10 points.10
AarhusNice
Score3747
Notable places within 2 km3360
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 10 points.10
AarhusNice
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 21 points.21
AarhusNice
Score5374
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months33
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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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 6 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAarhusNice
Official languageDanishFrench
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m0 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusNice
City population290,598357,737
People per km²3,1934,975
Museums within 10 km1716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3765
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.