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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Pattaya?

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
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Pattaya for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Pattaya’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, Pattaya 66: Pattaya leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Pattaya 30: Aarhus leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Pattaya 76: Pattaya leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Pattaya 40: Aarhus leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Pattaya 52: Aarhus leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Pattaya 55: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Pattaya 36: Aarhus leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Pattaya 42: Aarhus leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Pattaya 84: Pattaya leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Pattaya 30: Aarhus leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Pattaya.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Aarhus
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Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Pattaya
52match

Wins on prices and beaches 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

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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.

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya 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.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusPattaya
Official languageDanishThai
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Baht (THB)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation6 m35 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusPattaya
City population290,598119,532
People per km²3,193-
Museums within 10 km170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.