VacationSelector

Aarhus or Salzburg?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

AarhusSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusSalzburg
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km289
Coast distance0 km653 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 4 points.4
AarhusSalzburg
Score5349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2623
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 22 points.22
AarhusSalzburg
Score3860
Museums within 10 km2642
Museums within 2 km of centre2027
Share of museums within 2 km %7764
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 4 points.4
AarhusSalzburg
Score4036
Drinking venues within 4 km382294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8682
Nightclubs within 4 km1516
Nature & day trips. Aarhus leads by 1 points.1
AarhusSalzburg
Score2827
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 15 points.15
AarhusSalzburg
Score3348
Tourist attractions within 2 km617
Park area within 2 km72 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 9 points.9
AarhusSalzburg
Score3746
Notable places within 2 km3354
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 7 points.7
AarhusSalzburg
Score5259
Price level global87.876.9
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
AarhusSalzburg
Score5354
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusSalzburg
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€183-262
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
€226-261
MUC · 112 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
SZG · 3 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

MeasureAarhusSalzburg
Official languageDanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m424 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusSalzburg
City population290,598155,021
People per km²3,1932,360
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3750
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.