VacationSelector

Aarhus or San Jose?

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

Your match

Aarhus
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

AarhusSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 51 points.51
AarhusSan Jose
Score598
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km281
Coast distance0 km14 km
Water distance0 km14 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 12 points.12
AarhusSan Jose
Score5341
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Aarhus leads by 12 points.12
AarhusSan Jose
Score3826
Museums within 10 km2620
Museums within 2 km of centre209
Share of museums within 2 km %7745
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 9 points.9
AarhusSan Jose
Score4031
Drinking venues within 4 km382231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre33088
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8638
Nightclubs within 4 km1516
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 42 points.42
AarhusSan Jose
Score2870
Protected land share 50 km %226
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %6891
Park area within 2 km72 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus and San Jose are level on 33.
AarhusSan Jose
Score3333
Tourist attractions within 2 km62
Park area within 2 km72 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Aarhus leads by 23 points.23
AarhusSan Jose
Score3714
Notable places within 2 km339
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Aarhus leads by 9 points.9
AarhusSan Jose
Score5243
Price level global87.8100
Daily budget€214—
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 32 points.32
AarhusSan Jose
Score5385
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months38
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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusSan Jose
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 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

MeasureAarhusSan Jose
Official languageDanish–
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m25 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusSan Jose
City population290,5981,013,240
People per km²3,1932,167
Museums within 10 km1719
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3730
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.