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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
San JoseThe Winchester Mystery House

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Aarhus or San Jose?

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 San Jose for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose’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, San Jose 30: Aarhus leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, San Jose 56: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, San Jose 36: Aarhus leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, San Jose 33: Aarhus leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, San Jose 72: San Jose leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, San Jose 78: San Jose leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, San Jose 65: Aarhus leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, San Jose 30: Aarhus leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, San Jose 48: San Jose leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, San Jose 20: Aarhus leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, San Jose 38: Aarhus leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, San Jose 30: Aarhus leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and San Jose.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

San Jose
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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

San Jose in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
14 °Csea
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). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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 centre15 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.