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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Oaxaca?

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

  • families
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Aarhus leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Oaxaca 40: Aarhus leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Oaxaca 65: Oaxaca leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Oaxaca 40: Aarhus leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Oaxaca 55: Aarhus leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Oaxaca 38: Aarhus leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Aarhus
52match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusOaxaca
Official languageDanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m1,555 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusOaxaca
City population290,598258,913
People per km²3,1933,028
Museums within 10 km1710
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.