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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Aarhus or Siem Reap?

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
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Siem Reap for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Aarhus leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Siem Reap 45: Aarhus leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Siem Reap 42: Aarhus leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Siem Reap 40: Aarhus leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Siem Reap 55: Aarhus leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Siem Reap 35: Aarhus leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Siem Reap 30: Aarhus leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Siem Reap 38: Aarhus leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Siem Reap 32: Aarhus leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Siem Reap 60: Siem Reap leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Siem Reap.

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 families with your weighting.

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 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.

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAarhusSiem Reap
Official languageDanishKhmer
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation6 m18 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusSiem Reap
City population290,598147,866
People per km²3,193-
Museums within 10 km176
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.