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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Perth?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Perth for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Perth leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Perth 58: Perth leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Perth 42: Aarhus leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Perth 42: Aarhus leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Perth 72: Perth leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Perth 48: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Perth 74: Perth leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Perth 55: Aarhus leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Perth 44: Aarhus leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Perth 28: Perth leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Perth 50: Aarhus leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Perth 38: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Perth.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Aarhus
52match

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

Perth
53match

Wins on beaches 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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 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). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusPerth
Official languageDanishEnglish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112000
Elevation6 m2 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusPerth
City population290,5982,141,834
People per km²3,193334
Museums within 10 km1715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.