VacationSelector

Aarhus or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Aarhus
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

AarhusStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
AarhusStockholm
Score5960
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2873
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 23 points.23
AarhusStockholm
Score5376
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4271,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2636
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 31 points.31
AarhusStockholm
Score3869
Museums within 10 km2674
Museums within 2 km of centre2047
Share of museums within 2 km %7764
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 24 points.24
AarhusStockholm
Score4064
Drinking venues within 4 km3821,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8663
Nightclubs within 4 km15106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 13 points.13
AarhusStockholm
Score2841
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6877
Park area within 2 km72 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 24 points.24
AarhusStockholm
Score3357
Tourist attractions within 2 km623
Park area within 2 km72 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 42 points.42
AarhusStockholm
Score3779
Notable places within 2 km33357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
AarhusStockholm
Score5257
Price level global87.880.3
Daily budget€214€169
Year-round weather. Aarhus and Stockholm are level on 53.
AarhusStockholm
Score5353
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months35
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusStockholm
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 10 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 55 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 35 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureAarhusStockholm
Official languageDanishSwedish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m22 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusStockholm
City population290,598984,748
People per km²3,1935,260
Museums within 10 km17266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3781
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.