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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Space Needle behind Pier 70, Seattle
SeattleThe Space Needle behind Pier 70

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seattle by Caio, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Seattle?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Seattle for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Seattle’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, Seattle 30: Aarhus leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Seattle 66: Seattle leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Seattle 50: Aarhus leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Seattle 55: Seattle leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Seattle 87: Seattle leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Seattle 55: Aarhus leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Seattle 64: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Seattle 60: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Seattle 52: Seattle leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Aarhus and Seattle are level on 22.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Seattle 70: Seattle leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Seattle 40: Aarhus leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Seattle.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Aarhus
52match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Seattle
54match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts 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

Seattle in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
15 mmrain in the month
12 °Csea
16 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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusSeattle
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 m40 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusSeattle
City population290,598737,015
People per km²3,1931,996
Museums within 10 km1727
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.