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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Camelback Mountain above the city, Scottsdale
ScottsdaleCamelback Mountain above the city

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Scottsdale by Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Scottsdale?

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
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Scottsdale for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Scottsdale’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, Scottsdale 8: Aarhus leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Scottsdale 46: Aarhus leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Scottsdale 38: Aarhus leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Scottsdale 52: Scottsdale leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Scottsdale 68: Scottsdale leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Scottsdale 50: Aarhus leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Scottsdale 60: Aarhus leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Scottsdale 20: Aarhus leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Scottsdale 60: Scottsdale leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Scottsdale 32: Scottsdale leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Scottsdale 40: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Scottsdale 72: Scottsdale leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Scottsdale.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Scottsdale
46match

Wins on wellness and shopping 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

Scottsdale in July

41 °Cdaytime high
29 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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). Scottsdale: 1991-2020 normals, Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusScottsdale
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
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m380 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)10 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusScottsdale
City population290,598241,361
People per km²3,193-
Museums within 10 km1710
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.