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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Salt Lake City?

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
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Aarhus leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Salt Lake City 40: Aarhus leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Salt Lake City 42: Aarhus leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Salt Lake City 30: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Salt Lake City 34: Aarhus leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Salt Lake City 42: Aarhus leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Salt Lake City 36: Aarhus leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus and Salt Lake City are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Aarhus
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusSalt Lake City
Official languageDanish-
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m1,288 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusSalt Lake City
City population290,598199,723
People per km²3,193690
Museums within 10 km1712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.